February 2008 Archives

World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications

June 30-July 4, 2008 * Vienna, Austria

FINAL CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS

** Submissions Due: April 7, 2008 **

Organized by
Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)
http://www.aace.org
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** What are your colleagues saying about the international ED-MEDIA conferences? **
http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/testimonials.htm

COLOR POSTER--ED-MEDIA 2008 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Available to Print & Distribute (PDF to print; 200kb)
http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/ed08poster.pdf

>> CONTENTS & LINKS (details below) <<

1. Call for Papers and Submission & Presenter Guidelines:
http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/call.htm
http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/submitguide.htm
http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/PresenterLounge

2. Major Topics: www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/topics.htm

3. Presentation Categories: http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/categories.htm
4. Corporate Showcases & Demonstrations: http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/corporate.htm

5. Proceedings & Paper Awards: http://www.aace.org/pubs
6. For Budgeting Purposes: http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/rates.htm

7. Vienna, Austria: http://www.aace.org/conf/Cities/Vienna/
8. Deadlines: http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/deadlines.htm

INVITATION:
ED-MEDIA 2008--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia &
Telecommunications is an international conference, sponsored by the
Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). This
annual conference serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the discussion
and exchange of information on the research, development, and applications
on all topics related to multimedia, hypermedia and telecommunications/distance education.

ED-MEDIA, the premiere international conference in the field, spans all
disciplines and levels of education and attracts more than 1,500 attendees
from over 60 countries. We invite you to attend ED-MEDIA and submit
proposals for presentations.

This Final Call for Presentations is offered for those who were:
- unable to meet the first deadline for submissions in December, or
- were not ready to present a finished paper or project, or
- have a work-in-progress topic to present, and
- do not yet have a proposal accepted for presentation.

All presentation proposals are peer-reviewed and selected by three
reviewers on the respected Program Committee for inclusion in the
conference program, Proceedings (book and CD-ROM formats) and
EdITLib (Education and Information Technology Digital Library), http://www.EdITLib.org

We invite you to attend the ED-MEDIA Conference and submit proposals for
these presentation categories: http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/categories.htm

> Full & Brief Papers
> Best Practices
> Panels
> Best Practices
> Roundtables
> Symposia
> Student Panels (NEW)
> Posters/Demonstrations
> Corporate Showcases & Demonstrations

These Final Call presentation categories have been quite popular especially for the efficient
exchange of information about on-going research, applications, and projects.

Call for Presentations:
http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/call.htm

Submission Guidelines and Form:
http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/submitguide.htm

Presentation and AV Guidelines:
http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/PresenterLounge

PROGRAM ACTIVITIES:
* Keynote Speakers
* Invited Panels/Speakers
* Papers
* Panels
* Best Practices
* Symposia
* Demonstrations/Posters
* Corporate Showcases & Demonstrations
* Tutorials/Workshops
* Student Panel Dissertation Help Sessions
* Roundtables

TOPICS:

The scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to, the following
major topics as they relate to the educational and developmental aspects of
multimedia/hypermedia and telecommunications.

For ALL subtopics, please see:
http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/topics.htm

1. Infrastructure: (in the large)
2. Tools & Content-oriented Applications
3. New Roles of the Instructor & Learner
4. Human-computer Interaction (HCI/CHI)
5. Cases & Projects
6. Special Strand: ** Universal Web Accessibility **

PRESENTATION CATEGORIES:
http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/categories.htm
The Technical Program includes a wide range of interesting and useful activities
designed to facilitate the exchange of ideas and information.

CORPORATE SHOWCASES & DEMONSTRATIONS:
http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/corporate.htm

Companies have the opportunity to demonstrate and discuss their educational
technology products and services in through Corporate Showcases and Demonstrations/Literature.

PROCEEDINGS & PAPER AWARDS:
http://www.aace.org/pubs
Accepted papers will be published by AACE in the Proceedings Book and on CD-ROM.
Proceedings in this series serve as major resources in the multimedia/
hypermedia/telecommunications community, reflecting the current state of
the art in the discipline. In addition, the Proceedings also are internationally distributed through and archived in the Education and Information Technology Digital Library, http://www.EdITLib.org

Selected papers may be invited for publication in may be invited for publication in AACE's respected journals especially in the
- Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia (JEMH),
- International Journal on E-Learning (IJEJ), or
- Journal of Interactive Learning Research (JILR).

All presented papers will be considered for Best Paper Awards within several categories.
Award winning papers may be invited for publication in the AACE journals.

FOR BUDGETING PURPOSES:
http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/rates.htm

The conference registration fee for all presenters and participants will be
approximately $395 U.S. (AACE members), $450 U.S. (non-members).
Registration includes proceedings on CD, receptions, and all sessions
except tutorials.

All conference sessions will be held at the Vienna Univ. of Technology. Guest rooms at numerous hotels near the conference in different price ranges will be reserved for conference participants.

Vienna, Austria:
http://www.aace.org/conf/Cities/Vienna

Vienna is an ideal-typical European city similar to Barcelona, London, Milan, Paris or Rome, but unlike the others it is very compact and easy to negotiate. Vienna is referred to by many as a unique onion, with each of the urban layers surrounding the oldest historic center being equally important to the overall flavor of the city. The Austrian capital therefore embraces all the traditions of a European city, from Roman foundations through to Gothic, Baroque and Historicism. Tourists are eager to visit Vienna because of the city's exciting combination of the royal-imperial flair of the past with the latest trends, the responsible cultivation of a precious heritage and charming traditions.

A natural paradise including forests, grassland, parks and gardens cover some 20,000 hectares or about half of the city, and then there is the Danube and other stretches of water on top of that. The Vienna Woods are not only the green lung of the city, but provide visitors with footpaths and mountain-bike trails of all distances. Vienna is fully geared to pedal power with almost 1,000 kilometers of urban cycle paths. A number of places in the city such as the vast (6,000,000sqm) Prater park, a former imperial hunting ground in the rambling Danube wetlands, are best explored by bike anyway. The Danube Island is another vast area for outdoor pursuits. It has numerous bathing areas, cycle paths, playgrounds and sports facilities. And on the still waters of the New Danube you can go for a dip or a swim, or get into a rowing boat, sailboat or even onto water-skis.

For further Vienna information see:
http://www.austria.info/ or http://www.austria.info/

DEADLINES:
http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/deadlines.htm

Final Call Submissions: April 7, 2008
Final Authors Notified: April 14, 2008
Proceedings File Due: May 2, 2008
Early Registration: May 2, 2008
Hotel Reservations: As early as possible;
Rooms limited June 28-30
Conference: June 30-July 4, 2008

If you have a question about ED-MEDIA, please send an e-mail to
AACE Conference Services, conf@aace.org

Contact:
AACE--Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education
P.O. Box 1545
Chesapeake, Virginia 23327 USA
Phone: 757-366-5606 * Fax: 703-997-8760
E-mail: conf@aace.org * http://www.AACE.org

Suntec Singapore

August 4 – 6, 2008

This International Conference on Teaching and Learning with Technology (or iCTLT) is jointly organized by the Singapore’s Ministry of Education (MOE) and the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). ISTE is the organization that hosts the premier NECC (or National Educational Computing Conference) annually in the U.S.

The inaugural programme of iCTLT 2008 will focus on teaching and learning practices for engaging and effective digital-age education. It will feature education leaders, education researchers, classroom practitioners and industry leaders across the Asia-Pacific Region and around the world.

MOE (Singapore) and ISTE are now calling for proposals for iCTLT 2008. All teachers, school leaders, educators, researchers and industry leaders from related fields are invited to submit proposals. We also welcome corporate-sponsored proposals from exhibitors. The deadline for submission is 31 March 2008.

Theme and Sub-Themes
The theme for the conference is Learning, Leading, Innovating, and the sub-themes are:

Learning - covers the following aspects of technology use in the learning environment:
Literacy in the Digital World
Online Learning (including Web 2.0 tools)
ICT-Rich Pedagogy
Cyberwellness & Cyber Safety
Global Collaboration/Citizenship

Leading - covers the leadership necessary for:
Leadership in e-Education
Transformation
Change Management

Innovating - covers the latest innovative uses of technology in the curriculum and the resulting curriculum that takes advantage of emerging technologies:
Gaming for Learning
Portable/Mobile Learning
Innovative Curriculum

Categories of Proposals
Submission of proposals can be for a Paper Presentation or Poster Presentation. It is important to note that all presenters should ensure that legal copies of software are used at the conference.

Paper Presentations (5 & 6 Aug 2008)
The duration of each presentation can either be 30 min, 60 min or 90 min, and will be held during the concurrent sessions in meeting rooms on 5 and 6 Aug 2008.

The presentation may be presented as a lecture or panel discussion.

Lecture - There may be one or more presenters, each addressing the audience independently. The content should be of high interest and widely applicable to the audience. It should educate, inspire, challenge, and/or provide specific implementation ideas. The focus should be on evaluation and synthesis rather than the history/details of a specific project or initiative.
Panel Discussion - The main presenter serves as the moderator for his or her co-presenter panelists. The content should lend itself to a variety of perspectives with the moderator focused on creating a cohesive presentation.

Poster Presentations (5 & 6 Aug 2008)
The posters will be displayed in the exhibition hall. It can include 15 min presentations and/or demonstrations for presenters to interact informally with attendees.

Content should focus on the implementation of a lesson, curriculum, technology, model, or project, or demonstrate a good electronic resource/tool or practice for teaching and learning.

Online Submission – All proposals will be submitted online. Go to: http://www.ictlt.com/cfp_guidelines.html

Status of Submission - Acceptance/Regret notifications will be e-mailed by May 2008.

Two CFPs for MLA Special Session panels about online course management:

1. Course Management: Friend or Foe? What courses benefit from using online components to supplement in-person instruction, and in what courses do such “enhancements” detract from student learning experiences? Two-page abstracts by March 1. Julie McFadden: jmcfadde@carleton.edu.

2. Babel Bytes. How (well) do Moodle, Blackboard, WebCT, and other course management systems work when teaching non-Latinate languages? Which systems and kinds of instruction work best for online environments? Two-page abstracts by March 1. Julie McFadden: jmcfadde@carleton.edu.

OCTOBER 24, 2008

Timonium (Baltimore), MD

How in the World? Getting Students to Think Critically

Practical approaches and successful practices

**Call for Presenters**

On this United Nations Day we ask the question, “How in the World … do we get our students to think critically?” College faculty and librarians interested in the goal of improving students’ critical thinking skills will have an opportunity to share their best practices and learn from colleagues about this aspect of pedagogy central to all teaching and learning. Presenters at the MILEX Conference 2008 will share techniques, lead exercises, and illustrate classroom applications.

MILEX (Maryland Information Literacy Exchange), a new and growing organization of academic and instruction librarians, invites proposals from those interested in presenting at this conference. The MILEX Conference Committee is striving to construct an experience for academics that will be heavy on specific models and practical information for instructors to use in sparking their students’ critical faculties. Proposals that address opportunities to integrate critical thinking skills into lessons are of particular interest. Collaborative projects between faculty and librarians are especially welcome.

Do you have a special idea or technique to share? Why not submit a proposal to present at this special conference?

Submit proposals to Susan Cooperstein at cooperstein@loyola.edu by April 30, 2008 (For questions or additional information, call 410-617-6832).

Presenters whose proposals have been accepted will be notified by email by June 1, 2008.

For a copy of the form for presenter proposals and more information about MILEX, please visit www.milexmd.org.

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Drexel University
Creese Student Center, Behrakis Grand Hall
3200 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA
Thursday, March 20, 2008
7:30am - 4:00pm

For more information go to: http://www.drexel.edu/irt/eLearningConf2008/proposals.html#

• Sessions are 50 minutes
• If you can't use the whole 50 minutes, you can split a session. Please make a note of it in your abstract. Better yet, find a co-presenter.
• Proposal deadline: March 5, 2008

Joins us this Spring for a chance to share your latest in methodology, pedagogy, and eLearning solutions!

Invitation:

Please consider to contribute to and distribute to the appropriate groups the following

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

ICCGI 2008, The Third International Multi-Conference on Computing in the Global Information Technology

July 27 - August 1, 2008 - Athens, Greece

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2008/ICCGI08.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2008/CfPICCGI08.html

Submission deadline: March 5, 2008

Submissions will be peer-reviewed, published by IEEE CPS, posted in IEEE Digital Library, and indexed with the major indexes.

Extended versions of selected papers will be invited for specialized journals.

ICCGI 2008 Special Area Tracks (details in the CfP on site):

# Industrial systems
# Evolutionary computation
# Autonomic and autonomous systems
# Bio-technologies
# Knowledge data systems
# Mobile and distance education
# Intelligent techniques, logics, and systems
# Knowledge processing
# Information technologies
# Internet and web technologies
# Digital information processing
# Cognitive science and knowledge agent-based systems
# Mobility and multimedia systems
# Systems performance
# Networking and telecommunications
# Software development and deployment
# Knowledge virtualization
# Systems and networks on the chip
# Context-aware systems
# Networking technologies
# Security in networks, systems, and applications
# Knowledge for global defense
# Information Systems [IS]
# IPv6 Today - Technology and deployment
# Modeling
# Optimization
# Complexity

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*ICCGI Advisory Committee*

Freimut Bodendorf, University of Erlangen, Germany
Eugen Borcoci, Politehnica University Bucharest, Romania
Petre Dini, Cisco Systems Inc., USA // Concordia University, Canada [Chair] Sevki Erdogan, University of Hawaii Hilo, USA
Florin Gheorghe Filip, VP Romanian Academy, Romania
Alex Galis, University College London, UK
Voicu Groza, University of Ottawa, Canada
Willy Picard, The Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Adrian Popescu, University of Karlskrona, Sweden
Reda Reda, Siemens Communications, Austria/Germany
Nicolae Tapus, Politehnica University of Bucharest/IEEE Romania, Romania
Gheorghe Tecuci, George Mason University/Romanian Academy, USA/Romania

*ICCGI 2008 Technical Program Committee*

Chairs
Jun Bi, Tsinghua University, China
Constantin Paleologu, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania
Tarek S. El-Bawab, Jackson State University, USA
Josef Noll, University Graduate Centre (UniK)/University of Oslo (UiO), Norway

Special Area Chairs
Jun Bi, Tsinghua University, China [IPv6]
Guorui Jiang, Beijing University of Technology, China [Information Systems]
Kemal A. Delic, Hewlett-Packard Co., France [Complexity]
Dumitru Roman, DERI, Austria [Context-aware]
Simone Dantas, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil [Modeling]
Emmanouil Serrelis, University of Piraeus / Emporiki Bank (Credit Agricole), Greece [Security]
Piotr Karwaczynski, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland [Internet]
Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania [Knowledge]
Hoo Chong Wei, Motorola, Malaysia [Multimedia]
Rahul Shah, Intel Research, USA [Networking]
Kostas Pentikousis, VTT, Finland [Mobility&Multi-access]
Leila Nemmiche Alachaher, Universite Blaise Pascal, France [Computation]
David Boyle, University of Limerick, Ireland [Security]

Call for Papers

http: http://www.ecsa2008.cs.ucy.ac.cy/
e-mail: ecsa2008@cs.ucy.ac.cy

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Paphos, Cyprus
September 29, October 1, 2008
Proceedings by Springer LNCS
(Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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IMPORTANT DATES:

* Abstract due: April 7, 2008
* Paper submission due: April 14, 2008
* Notification of acceptance: June 16, 2008
* Camera-ready paper due: July 7, 2008
* Conference: September 29, October 1, 2008

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SCOPE:

The role of software architecture in the
engineering of software-intensive applications
has become more and more important and widespread.
Component-based and service-oriented
architectures are key to the design, development
and evolution of all software systems.

The European Conference on Software Architecture
is the premier European conference dedicated to
the field of software architecture, covering all
architectural aspects of software and service
engineering. It is the follow-up of a successful
series of European workshops on software
architecture held in United Kingdom in 2004 (Springer LNCS 3047),
Italy in 2005 (Springer LNCS 3527),
and France in 2006 (Springer LNCS 4344).

Building on the above success the first European
conference in the series (ECSA 2007 whose first
edition is ECSA 2007 was held in Madrid, Spain
(Springer LNCS 3047).

ECSA 2008 will bring together researchers and
practitioners from academia and industry to share
novel ideas on the foundations, languages,
models, techniques, tools, and applications of
software architecture technology. It will include
keynotes, research, experience, and challenge
papers,posters, and panels.

The proceedings will be published by
Springer-Verlag as part of the Lecture Notes in
Computer Science series.

Authors of best papers will be invited to submit
revised and extended versions of their papers for
the Special Section on Software Architecture of
the Journal of Systems and Software.

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TOPICS:

ECSA 2008 encourages submission of papers
describing basic and applied research, novel
applications and experience reports (in addition
to research challenges) on all topics related to
software architectures (e.g. component-based and
service-oriented architectures) including, but
not limited to:

- architecture description languages and metamodels,
- architectural models, patterns and styles,
- architecture analysis, validation and verification,
- architecture transformation and refinement,
- architecture-based synthesis, code generation,
- architecture-based support for
reconfigurable, adaptive or mobile applications,
- requirements engineering and software architectures,
- quality attributes and software architectures,
- architecture reengineering, recovery,
- architecture conformance, run-time monitoring,
- aspect-oriented software architectures,
- service-oriented architectures,
- web services: composition, orchestration, choreography,
- ontology-based approaches for component and architecture description,
- process and management of architectural decisions,
- process models and frameworks for architecture-centric software engineering,
- architecture-centric model driven engineering,
- architectural features of Model Driven Architecture (MDA),
- software tools and environments for
architecture-centric software engineering,
- architectural styles and models for
applications based on mature and emerging
technologies (Web Services, Java/J2EE, .Net, ...)
- architectural concerns of autonomic systems,
- component-based models, middleware, component-based deployment,
- technology of components and component-based frameworks,
- industrial applications, case studies, best
practices and?experience reports on software
architecture,
- other aspects and applications related to software architecture.

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TYPES OF PAPERS:

ECSA 2008 seeks four types of contributions:

* Full research papers (max. 16 pages in LNCS
style) which describe novel contributions to
software architecture research (submissions
should cover work that has a sound
scientific/technological basis and has been
validated). They should clearly support claims of
novelty with citations to the relevant
literature. In addition to publishing their full
papers in the conference proceedings, authors
will present their work in the research paper
sessions.

* Experience papers (max. 16 pages in LNCS style)
which describe significant experiences related to
software architecture practice (submissions
should present case studies or real-life
experiences of benefit to practitioners and
researchers). They should clearly draw lessons
learned. In addition to publishing their full
papers in the conference proceedings, authors
will present their work in the experience paper
sessions.

* Emerging research papers (max. 8 pages in LNCS
style) which present promising preliminary
results from work-in-progress in a topic of
software architecture research (submissions
should cover work that has a sound basis, but
perhaps has not been validated in full). In
addition to publishing their short papers in the
conference proceedings, authors will present
their work in the form of a poster and concisely
in the emerging research paper sessions.

* Research challenge papers (max. 4 pages in LNCS
style) which present significant research
challenges in theory or practice of software
architecture (submissions should clearly present
the research questions and their rationale). In
addition to publishing their position papers in
the conference proceedings, authors will present
their work in interactive discussion sessions.

All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous peer review process.
Papers will be selected based on originality,
quality, soundness and relevance. All
contributions must be original, not published,
accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere.

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PROCEEDINGS:

The proceedings will be published by
Springer-Verlag as part of the Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS) series.

All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings.

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PAPER SUBMISSION:

Submission will be made through EasyChair - http://www.easychair.org/

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CONFERENCE CHAIR:

- George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

ECSA STEERING COMMITTEE REPRESENTATIVE:

- Flavio Oquendo, University of South Brittany - VALORIA, France

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR:

- Ron Morrison, University of St. Andrews, UK

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS:

- Yamine Ait Ameur, ENSMA, France
- Dharini Balasubramaniam, University of St. Andrews, UK
- Thais Batista, University of Rio Grande do Norte - UFRN, Brazil
- Marco Bernardo, University of Urbino, Italy
- Antoine Beugnard, ENST Bretagne, France
- Jan Bosch, Nokia Research Center, Finland
- Alan W. Brown, IBM Rational, USA
- Carlos E. Cuesta, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain
- Rogerio de Lemos, University of Kent, UK
- Khalil Drira, LAAS-CNRS, University of Toulouse, France
- Laurence Duchien, INRIA and University of Lille, France
- Katrina Falkner, University of Adelaide, Australia
- Régis Fleurquin, University of South Brittany - VALORIA, France
- David Garlan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Carlo Ghezzi, Polytechnic of Milano, Italy
- Ian Gorton, Pacific Northwest National Lab, USA
- Paul Grefen, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
- Volker Gruhn, University of Leipzig, Germany
- Wilhelm Hasselbring, University of Oldenburg, Germany
- Juan Hern?ndez, University of Extremadura, Spain
- Paola Inverardi inverard@di.univaq.it University of L'Aquila, Italy
- Frédéric Lang, INRIA Rh?ne-Alpes, France
- Nicole Levy, University of Versailles St-Quentin en Yvelines - PRiSM, France
- Antonia Lopes, University of Lisbon, Portugal
- Jeff Magee, Imperial College London, UK
- Esperanza Marcos, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain
- Carlo Montangero, University of Pisa, Italy
- Ron Morrison, University of St. Andrews, UK
- Robert L. Nord, Software Engineering Institute, USA
- Flavio Oquendo, University of South Brittany - VALORIA, France
- Mourad Oussalah, University of Nantes - LINA, France
- Claus Pahl, Dublin City University, Ireland
- Mike P. Papazoglou, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
- Dewayne E. Perry, University of Texas at Austin, USA
- Frantisek Plasil, Charles University, Czech Republic
- Eltjo Poort, LogicaCMG, The Netherlands
- Amar Ramdame-Cherif, University of Versailles
St-Quentin en Yvelines - PRiSM, France
- Isidro Ramos, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
- Clemens Schäfer, University of Leipzig, Germany
- Bradley Schmerl, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Clemens Szyperski, Microsoft Research, USA
- Richard N. Taylor, University of California at Irvine, USA
- Miguel Toro, University of Sevilla, Spain
- J.C. (Hans) van Vliet, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Brian Warboys, University of Manchester, UK
- Eoin Woods, UBS Investment Bank, UK

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE MEMBERS:

- Pyrros Bratskas, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
- Pericles Cheng, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
- Constantinos Kakousis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
- Nearchos Paspallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS:

- Flavio Oquendo, University of South Brittany - VALORIA, France
- Carlos E. Cuesta and Esperanza Marcos, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain
- John Favaro, Consorzio Pisa Ricerche, Italy
- Volker Gruhn, University of Leipzig, Germany
- Ron Morrison, University of St. Andrews, UK
- Mourad Oussalah, University of Nantes - LINA, France
- George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
- Brian Warboys, University of Manchester, UK
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Women's Studies undergraduate e-journal, "transcending silence..." to receive submissions from undergraduate students. The deadline this year is March 17, 2008.

If you have any students who have completed compelling research projects
or creative works, especially digital work, please let them know about
this call-for-submissions.

For more information, please visit the website:
http://www.albany.edu/ws/journal/

Information and Communications Technology Law
Submissions for a Special Issue: Government-held Information, Privacy and Civic Access

Governments are most frequently the largest collectors of data within their jurisdictions, and often that data collection and storage is financially supported with public taxes. How governments manage and make available that information when
requests are made by non-government parties varies in each country. As the data-sharing world finds new and multi-platform ways to network, the variations of legal access to government-held information create both opportunities and difficulties.

This special issue will collect the state of access to government-held information with special attention to concerns for civilian privacy and civic activists’ oversight of government operations.

Submissions should conform to normal journal specifications noted http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/cictauth.asp

Please send submission no later than August 1, 2008
Prof. D.L. Rabina Pratt Institute School of Information & Library Science, 144 West 14th Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10011-7301 or by email drabina@pratt.edu

October 17 & 18, 2008 What does it mean to be a girl? Who defines girlhood in an age when puberty and sexualization are happening at younger ages? How do girls assert their own identity in an increasingly mediated and consumerist culture which targets girls as a prime audience? Why do U.S. girls who are told that they can do anything feel like they have to do everything, and perfectly? What challenges do girls across races, classes, religions, nations, and cultures face in an ever more globalized world? What is the relationship between girls and feminism? What effect can feminism have on constructions of boyhood and masculinity and how in turn can this effect girls? In the 18th annual SCSU Women's Studies conference, we will take a close look at girls' culture and girls' studies, among the most vibrant areas in women's studies. We invite individuals, groups, scholars, activists, artists, girls and all, to submit proposals for panel presentations, roundtable discussions, or artistic performances that address topics including the following:

Girls and Pop Culture
Construction of Girlhood Media and Girls' Culture
Girls & Cutting/Self-Mutilation Politics of Girls Studies
Girls & Leadership Women's Studies & Girls' Studies
Girls & Child Labor Race & Class in Girls' Studies
Girls & Performance Coming of Age Glocally
Gender Research & Girls Body Image and Girls
Girls & Disabilities Girls & Sexuality
Girls & Ink. Human Trafficking & Girls
Girls & Religion Indigenous Women and Girls
Human Rights of Girls Chick Lit
Globalization and Girlhood Girls & Sports Construction of Tween Agers/Girls Girls & Resistance
Girls & Gangs Race, Ethnicity, and Class in Girls Studies
Transnational Adoption of Girls Violence against Girls & Women
Girl Power & Feminism/Anti-Feminism Girl Power and Politics
American Girls and Beyond Girls' Studies in Academe
Girls and Grassroots Activism Reviving Ophelia, Surviving Ophelia, Resisting Ophelia Growing up Incarcerated Girls across/between Worlds Parenting/Raising Girls Representations of Girls
Girls as Parents

We also invite your ideas and suggestions. Conference sessions will juxtapose cultural, generational, and geopolitical perspectives in order to construct feminist renditions of girls' cultures, histories, and representations. Expect fun through meals, performance, and poetry slam, with girls and their allies speaking of their struggles and power. Send submissions electronically by June 12, 2008, to womenstudies@southernct.edu. Please include name, affiliation, E-mail, standard mailing address, and phone number. Proposals should be no longer than one page, with a second page for identification information.

Call for papers for an “Age Studies Internationally” panel at the Modern Language Association conference. Age Studies Internationally. Submissions welcome on contemporary age studies applications and theories around the globe and/or across political, geographic, and cultural borders. One-page abstracts by 15 March to leni@agingstudies.org.

Call for papers for an “Age Studies Tomorrow: Future Scholarship” panel at the Modern Language Association conference. Submissions welcome on new avenues for exploration, new arenas in which the concepts can be applied, and the future of the field. One-page abstracts by 15 March to leni@agingstudies.org.

Transnational Dialogues:
De-centering the Academic Debate on Global Feminisms

September 26-28, 2008
Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio

The internationalization of local feminisms has significantly impacted how, in recent years, research agendas are structured in the U.S. and elsewhere. Feminists from all over the globe are addressing how globalization brings about new forms of gender inequality that, in many cases, are rooted in older histories of colonialism and racism. These transnational approaches move across national boundaries to assess political, economical, and cultural shifts affecting women’s lives, and emphasize connections without necessarily creating similarities. Within the U.S., feminists of color who had experienced first hand race and class biases were the first ones to create a network that included new social movements and transnational alliances. The exclusion that women of color from different racial, ethnic, physical, national, or sexual identities experienced created the conditions that generated novel coalitional movements.

Academic debates have tended to ignore other overarching issues that have produced their internationalization. Local feminisms went global during the 1990s, and produced contentious debates over the goals and strategies of feminist politics. These transnational dialogues resist essentialism and universalism and propose theories and methods that go beyond the exclusive focus on gender to make visible other forms of oppression where issues of race, class, culture, and sexual orientation intersect.

This conference seeks to engage scholars from various areas of the globe in a dialogue to challenge exclusions and omissions of these debates in mainstream academia and college curricula. Papers, panels, and workshops may be on, but are not limited to, any of the following topics:

• Theories, Methods and Challenges of Transnational Feminisms
• The Politics of the Global / Local Dynamic in Women’s Literary and / or Artistic Productions
• Feminist Geographies and Transnational Flows: Globalization, Immigration, and Displacement
• Politics of Sexualities
• Women’s Movements, State Building, and the Growth of Civil Society
• Community Building through Technology
• Building Academic Alliances Within and Beyond Women’s and Gender Studies Programs

All individual papers should be limited to 20 minutes reading time. Proposals for panel discussion and teaching workshops will receive priority. Papers in languages other than English will be considered. Selected proceedings will be considered for publication.

Undergraduate research (papers or poster sessions) encouraged, faculty approval of final paper is required to assure students’ participation. Students must submit an abstract by Feb. 29 and paper by May 30th.

Send a one­page abstract (300 words) submission by February 29, 2008 to:
Prof. Clara Román-Odio and Prof. Marta Sierra at tnr.callforpapers@kenyon.edu.

*THEME: MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS

DEADLINE: MAY 1, 2008

Prizes of $500 for 1st place, $300 for 2nd place, and $200 for 3rd place, will
be awarded for poems, creative non-fiction, and photography on the theme of
Mother and Daughters. The winning works in all categories, as well as a
selection of honorable mention contest entries, will be published in JARM,
Journal of the Association of Research on Mothering, special issue on Mother
and Daughters in October 2008. All works will be considered for publication in
the journal and subsequently in a literary anthology to be published by Demeter
Press in honor of Mother’s Day, May 2009. Prizes in each category will be
announced in August 2008 and awarded at the ARM Conference, October 24-26,
2008.

Poets whose works are included in the issue will celebrate the launch of the
issue with readings at a Literary Gala Event as part of the conference.

Guidelines:

Poetry: Submit up to three unpublished poems with $20.00 CAD entry fee ($3 for
each additional poem).

<>Creative Non-Fiction: Entries should be short literary memoir, autobiography,
lyric essay 300-1,000 words max. One submission only with $20.00 ($3 for each
additional entry).
Photography: Black and white photographs should be submitted as 8” x 10” prints
and mailed in hard copy to the ARM/Demeter Press office. *Contest participants
outside of Canada and the U.S may email an electronic photo submission to
arm@yorku.ca. Please be sure to include all required information with your
submission. Submit up to three submissions ($3.00 for each additional entry).

Do not include name or identification on entries; this information should be
provided on the entry form. Send entries for poetry and creative non-fiction by
email to arm@yorku.ca. Photography submissions should be sent be regular mail to
the ARM/Demeter Press office (address and payment information below). Clearly
identify your entry with a subject heading: Poetry Contest or Creative
Non-Fiction Contest or Photography Contest. All submissions (Poetry, Creative
Non-Fiction, Photography) must be accompanied by an entry form. For prose and
poetry entries, send in one word attachment. Entries that include separate
files for each poem or prose entry will not be considered. Once your payment
and entry has been filed, acknowledgment of your contest entry will be made by
email.

Deadline:

Deadline: May 15, 2008 Judges TBA

Additional Photo Contest Rules and Regulations:

*By submitting the photo(s) you confirm that you are the exclusive rights holder
of the photo(s). Model releases (i.e., permission of people in the photograph)
are the responsibility of the entrant and must be available in the event that
the photo is a winner.

Photographers of selected photos will retain their rights after publication with
the understanding that ARM and Demeter Press can reprint in future publications
without payment or royalty fees. ARM/Demeter Press will hold first time North
American publication rights. Selected photos may be included in a future
ARM/Demeter Press publication, promotional materials, and/or exhibitions.

Photos that have been previously published or won an award are not eligible.

Submitted photos and entries cannot be returned.

Demeter Press and ARM are not responsible for lost or delayed entries, or
entries damaged in transit.

Photographs will be judged on creativity and excellence and how they best
capture the contest theme. Judging decisions are final.
Payment Information:

Payment can be made by credit card (Visa or Mastercard) using forms available on
our website at: http://www.yorku.ca/arm/creditcard.html

Please fax form to 416-736-5766 or email to arm@yorku.ca.

Alternately you can send your forms and payment by cheque or money order to our
offices at

ARM/Demeter Press
Rm 726 Atkinson, York University
4700 Keele St.
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3.

**Entry form and payment must accompany all submissions.

Association for Research on Mothering (ARM)
Demeter Press
726 Atkinson, York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON,
Canada, M3J 1P3
416-736-2100 x60366 (fax) 416-736-5766
arm@yorku.ca
www.yorku.ca/arm

GL10 - CALL FOR PAPERS
http://www.textrelease.com/callforpapers.html

Tenth International Conference on Grey Literature
"Designing the Grey Grid for Information Society"
Science Park Amsterdam NL, December 8-9, 2008

To: Authors, Publishers, Librarians, Web Editors, Researchers, Policy Makers, Information Managers, Brokers and Vendors, Information Specialists, Intermediaries, Information Technicians, Information Professionals, Journalists, and Academia

GUIDELINES FOR THE SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS
http://www.textrelease.com/images/GL10_Call-for-Papers.pdf

Participants who seek to present a paper at GL10 are invited to submit an English abstract between 300-400 words. The abstract should deal with the problem/goal, the research method/procedure, an indication of costs related to the project, as well as the anticipated results/conclusions of the research. The abstract should likewise include the title of the proposed paper, names of the author(s), and full address information.

INDICATE THE SESSION THEME MOST SUITED TO YOUR ABSTRACT:
· Born digital and web-based grey: Challenges for library systems and collections
· Interoperability in the grey grid: data, metadata, datasets, and databanks
· Non-text and multimedia grey literature, the signs of our times
· Grey life cycle: uses, applications, and impact of grey literature on information society
· Towards grey scholarship: research, education, and other policy driven programmes

DUE DATE AND FORMAT USED FOR SUBMISSION
The abstract must be emailed on or before May 1, 2008 in MS Word. The author will receive written verification upon its receipt. The GL10 Program Committee will use these abstracts to finalize the Conference Program.

FURTHER PROCEDURE
Shortly after the Program Committee has met, those who submitted abstracts will receive notification of their place on the GL10 Conference Program. This notice will be accompanied by further guidelines for the submission of the full-text papers and PowerPoint presentations. Authors will then have 30 days to complete their Conference Registration. For further details, see the GL10 Conference Registration Form.

CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS

TextRelease
GL10 Program and Conference Bureau
Javastraat 194-HS
1095 CP Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Tel/Fax: +31(0)20-331.2420
Email: conference@textrelease.com
http://www.textrelease.com
http://www.greynet.org

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

ICWMC 2008, The Fourth International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications

July 27 - August 1, 2008 - Athens, Greece

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2008/ICWMC08.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2008/CfPICWMC08.html

Submission deadline: March 5, 2008

Submissions will be peer-reviewed, published by IEEE CPS, posted in IEEE Digital Library, and indexed with the major indexes.

Extended versions of selected papers will be invited for specialized journals.

ICWMC 2008 Special Area Tracks (details in the CfP on site):

* Wireless Communications Basics
* Radio Interfaces and Systems
* Spectrum Allocation and Management
* Circuits for Wireless Communications
* Wireless and Mobility
* Protocols for wireless and mobility
* Traffic and congestion control, QoS, Resource Management
* Wireless and mobile technologies
* Performance Evaluation, Simulation and Modeling of wireless
networks and systems
* Management of wireless and mobile networks
* Security in wireless and mobile environment
* Networks convergence and integration
* Applications and services based on wireless infrastructures
* Standardization and regulations
* Design and implementation
* Wireless and mobile network deployment

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*ICWMC Advisory Committee*
Eugen Borcoci, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania
Todor Cooklev, San Francisco State University, USA
Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA / Concordia University, Canada [Chair] Florin Gheorghe Filip, VP Romanian Academy, Romania
Christian Prehofer, DoCoMo Labs, Germany
Nicolae Tapus, Politehnica University of Bucharest/IEEE Romania, Romania
Arkady Zaslavski, Monash University, Australia
*2008 ICWMC TPC*
Chair
Leon Reznik, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Special Area Chairs:
Yves Louet, SUPELEC, France [Coding]
Mohammad Chowdhury, UniK-University Graduate Center - Kjeller, Norway [Services]
Tomi Räty, VTT, Finland [Services]
Jens Moedeker, Fokus Fraunhofer, Germany [Management]

Call for Chapters
Foundations of Informing Science:
Volume I
Nominations, including self-nominations, due April 30

Over the past decade, the informing science transdiscipline has made enormous as an intellectual endeavor. Membership in the Informing Science Institute (ISI) has continued to grow during a period when many information-related disciplines have experienced contractions. ISI's growing number of journal publications, which include Informing Science and Journal of IT Education, have increased in stature and size and its initial forays into book publishing have led to extremely promising results. The Institute’s InSITE conferences continue to flourish despite cutbacks in travel budgets at many institutions. All of these indicators provide clear evidence of the value of the research being conducted in the informing science area.

As informing science continues to mature as a transdiscipline, it is useful to reflect upon what has been achieved, how these achievements relate to the initial objectives set forth for the transdiscipline, and where it might develop. As part of this reflection, we are announcing a new book, Foundations of the Informing Sciences: Volume I, which will serve as a celebration of the first decade of the informing science transdiscipline, and—much more importantly—will act as a an archive of ideas and priorities for new and existing researchers in the field.

The Book
Foundations of Informing Science: Volume I, edited by Eli Cohen and Grandon Gill, will consist of a collection of both previously published and original works that will help its readers develop a clear sense of the scope and purpose of the informing science transdiscipline. It will be organized into 5 parts, as follows:

Part I: What is Informing Science?

Beginning with Cohen's seminal work, which launched the field, this part will contain chapters that explain, to the reader unfamiliar with the transdiscipline, the nature, objectives and scope of informing science.

· Eli Cohen, (1999) Reconceptualizing Information Systems as a Field of the Transdiscipline Informing Science: From Ugly Duckling to Swan, Journal of Computing and Information Technology. 7 (3) 213-219, http://inform.nu/WhatsIS.htm

Part II: Elements of Informing Systems

A second part consists of chapters that examine the individual elements of informing systems, such as client, sender, channel, technologies and task. In addition to their contributions to informing science research, chapters in this part also serves an important tutorial function. Being inherently multidisciplinary means that concepts widely understood by one group of researchers in the field may be entirely novel to another, for example:

· Gill, T.G. and Hicks, R.C., (2006) Task Complexity and Informing Science: A Synthesis, Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline. 9 1-30. http://inform.nu/Articles/Vol9/v9p001-030Gill46.pdf

Part III: Reference Disciplines for Informing Science

Many different fields, including information systems, computer science, business, education, library science and philosophy, provide important contributions to informing science. This part will consist of chapters that focus on showing how concepts developed in other disciplines are being applied to informing science, for example:

· Nissen, H., (2007) Using Double Helix Relationships to Understand and Change Informing Systems. Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, 10 Monograph: Use and Redesign in IS: Double Helix Relationships?1-19 http://inform.nu/Articles/Vol10/DblHelix001-019.pdf

Part IV: Applied Informing Science

A complement to Part III, this part will focus on the application of informing science concepts to other disciplines, as well as their use by practitioners. These chapters should both identify what concepts from informing science are being applied and how they can, demonstrably or potentially, add value to the reader, for example:

· Gackowski, Z.J., (2006) Informing Systems in Business Environments: A Purpose-Focused View, Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, 8 101-122. http://inform.nu/Articles/Vol8/v8p101-122Gack.pdf

Part V: Future Directions

What exciting problems should we be tackling in the coming decade? In this part, chapters will focus on identifying possible directions for the field and on proposing priorities for future research areas and activities, for example:

· Gill, G. and Bhattacherjee, A., (2007) The Informing Sciences at a Crossroads: The Role of the Client, Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline. 10 17-39. http://inform.nu/Articles/Vol10/ISJv10p017-039Gill317.pdf

Nomination Process
All chapters in Foundations of Informing Science: Volume I will be based upon peer reviewed articles appearing in refereed journals. To be considered for inclusion in the book, an article must be nominated through an email sent to the book's editor ggill@coba.usf.edu by 30 April 2008, with self-nominations being encouraged. That nomination email should include:

· What part the chapter would appear in

· The chapter's expected contribution to the book

· A statement of the nominator's willingness to review one or more completed chapters as the book nears publication, scheduled for late fall 2008 or early spring 2009. (Volunteering in this manner is not a prerequisite for inclusion, but would be greatly appreciated.)

Previously Published Works

Most contributions will be based upon previously published articles, typically in ISI journals, although other sources will be considered provided that copyright issues can be addressed. After examining the nominated article, the editors will decide if it is consistent with the objectives and structure of the book. If appropriate, the editors will invite the author(s) to submit a chapter.

Included with each invitation to submit a chapter will be a list of specific changes desired prior to publication in chapter form. We anticipate that nearly all chapters will require some rewriting since the book is intended to be a tightly integrated work, rather than being a loose collection of minimally related reprints. For example, it would be entirely unnecessary to have an explanation of the informing science framework in every chapter, even though many articles necessarily include such an introduction. The editors will work with authors to achieve some degree of consistency in form and tone throughout the book. A web site containing a table of contents for the book and current chapter drafts will be maintained to assist in this effort.

Original Works

In some cases, a researcher may be working on a concept that has not yet been published, but which closely ties in with the objectives and structure of the book. In such cases, the nominating author should also include a synopsis (of 1000 words or fewer) of the research in question, along with an expected date of journal submission—which must be no later than 30 June 2008—plus a brief biography of the intended author(s). If the potential contribution looks appropriate, the editors will notify the authors of their willingness to consider it as a chapter. Then:

· Upon completion of the manuscript, the author will inform the book's editors and submit it to the most appropriate ISI journal for review (typically Informing Science Journal, but others—such as JITE—are also possible).

· The book editors will request that the journal editors expedite review of the submission.

· Upon acceptance (or provisional acceptance) by the journal, the authors will immediately submit their chapter draft to the editors, after which time both authors and editors will attempt to follow the "existing works" schedule as closely as possible.

Key Dates (Subject to Change)
30 April 2008: Deadline for nominations
31 May 2008: All chapter invitations sent
30 June 2008: Original works submitted to appropriate ISI journal
31 August 2008: Revised chapters returned to editors
31 October 2008: Review of chapters completed
31 December 2008: Publication in electronic form
31 January 2009: Publication in print form

-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions: 25 February 2008 --

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE TELECOMMUNICATIONS, NETWORKS AND SYSTEMS 2008
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 22 to 24 July 2008
( http://www.tns-conf.org/)
part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2008) Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 22 to 27 July 2008
( http://www.mccsis.org)

* Keynote Speaker (confirmed):
Professor Ananth Srinivasan, Director of the Centre for Digital Enterprise, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

* Conference background and goals
IADIS Telecommunications, Networks and Systems 2008 conference covers theory, design and application of computer and telecommunication networks and systems.
During recent years there has been an impressive increase in the use of networked applications and networks are now key resources in any information system configuration.
Wireless and fixed-line networks complemented by a growing range of mobile devices are having a significant impact on the way we run our lives and our businesses.

* Format of the Conference
The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations.
The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS Digital Library ( http://www.iadis.net/dl).
The best paper authors will be invited to publish extended versions of their papers in a special issue of the IJBDCN - International Journal of Business Data Communications and Networking (ISSN: 1548-0631).

* Types of submissions
Full and Short Papers, Reflection Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium.
All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process.

* Topics related to Telecommunications, Networks and Systems are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas:
- Adoption and diffusion of networking technologies
- Business applications of telecommunications
- Cross-border network-based information systems
- Design and performance evaluation of new network application and systems
- Designing, deploying and using networked systems in specialized sectors (i.e. Health, Education, Manufacturing)
- Effects of legislation and regulation on telecommunications
- Emerging networking trends
- Frameworks for wireless security
- Grid, Cluster and Internet Computing
- Internetworking Protocols
- Location- and context-aware distributed systems
- Management of telecommunications in organizations
- Mobile computing, mobile networks, and mobile agents
- Mobility and m-commerce issues
- Network management contingency issues
- Network Performance Analysis and Evaluation
- Network pricing issues and strategies
- Networking: architectures, services, routing, and applications
- Outsourcing of networking and data communication services
- Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Systems
- Policy-based network management systems
- Policy-based security systems
- Quality of Service issues associated with networked systems
- Security of interconnected systems
- Sensor, mesh, and ad hoc networks
- Standards and network interoperability issues
- Strategic use of networking technologies
- Success factors of networked systems
- Pervasive Computing Environments
- Telecommuting, remote access and Virtual Private Networks
- Use of distributed services over wireless networks
- Wireless and Mobile Networking and Computing

* Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline: 25 February 2008
- Notification to Authors: Until 31 March 2008
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 21 April
2008
- Late Registration: After 21 April 2008
- Conference: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 22 to 24 July 2008

* Conference Location
The conference will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE TELECOMMUNICATIONS, NETWORKS AND SYSTEMS 2008 Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: secretariat@tns-conf.org
Web site: http://www.tns-conf.org/

* Program Committee

Telecommunications, Networks and Systems 2008 Conference Program Chair Jairo Gutiérrez, University of Auckland, New Zealand

General MCCSIS Conference Co-Chairs:
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Committee Members: *
* for committee list please refer to
http://www.tns-conf.org/committees.asp

7th European Conference on e-Learning

Grecian Bay Hotel, Agia Napa, Cyprus

6-7 November 2008

http://academic-conferences.org/ecel/ecel2008/ecel08-call-papers.htm

This is the second call for papers for the 7th European Conference on
e-Learning, which will be held at the Grecian Bay Hotel, Agia Napa,
Cyprus. on the 6-7 November 2008.

Over the last ten years, the way in which education is delivered has
changed considerably with the advent of new technologies. e-Learning is
one such development, so much so that it is now regarded as a field in
it?s own right. Thus, the 7th European Conference on e-Learning (ECEL
2008), offers an opportunity for those involved in the study,
implementation and delivery of e-learning to meet and exchange ideas and
experiences.

The conference, to be held in November 2008, invites qualitative,
experience-based and quantitative papers, case studies and reports of
work in progress on both the theory and practice of all aspects of
web-enabled technology in learning and teaching. Submissions are
welcomed from academics, teachers, practitioners, vendors and
government departments.

Topics may include, but are not limited to: e-Learning platforms,
portals and Virtual learning environments; Course design; Emerging
and best practices; Partnerships in e-Learning; Evaluation of
e-Learning; Cross-cultural education; e-Learning strategies;
Social benefits of e-Learning; e-Learning effectiveness and
outcomes; Web-based learning, including Wikis and Blogs;
Academic participation and freedom; Learner autonomy;
Security and confidentiality; Self-learning integrated methodology;
Ambient intelligence; Assertive and assistive educational
technology; Computer-aided assessment; Learning content management
systems; AV-communication and other media; Digital classrooms; Blended
learning; Collaborative on-line learning; Content repositories; Data
envelopment analysis; Meta data standards; Ontologies; Pedagogical
models; Needs analysis; Global trends in e-Learning; Corporate training;
Managing quality in e-Learning; Synchronic software; Educating the
educators; Web 2.0 technologies; Mobile learning; Simulated communities;
Online mentoring; e-Benchmarking; Cultural, social and gender issues;
Personalisation; National/international strategies.

Abstracts are required in the first instance and should be submitted
by 22nd of May 2008 via the online form at
http://academic-conferences.org/ecel/ecel2008/ecel08-abstract-submission.htm

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE
Teaching the Body

The editors of Transformations seek articles (5,000 ­ 10,000 words) and media reviews (books, film, video, performance, art, music, etc. ­ 3,000 to 5,000 words) that explore the body in a variety of pedagogical contexts and disciplinary perspectives­literature, science, women’s and gender studies, anthropology, folklore, history, psychology, sociology, art, photography, geography, religion, cultural studies, working-class studies, ethnic studies, disability studies, age studies, narrative medicine. and others.

Topics might include: the body in global and transnational contexts; the culture of self-help; environmental issues; im/migration and transnational labor; body rituals and body modification (from tattooing and piercing to cosmetic surgery); reproductive rights; transgender, intersex, and queer bodies; bodies and sports; bodies and religion; military bodies; disciplining the bodies; imprisoned bodies; body economics; bodily knowledge; the body in virtual spaces; students as bodies; language of genetics in discussion of bodies; bodies as biological entities; bionic bodies; online communities (icons and avatars).

Send a hard copy in MLA format (6th ed.): Jacqueline Ellis and Edvige Giunta, Editors, Transformations, New Jersey City University, Hepburn Hall Room 309, 2039 Kennedy Boulevard, Jersey City, NJ 07305 OR email submissions and inquiries to: transformations@njcu.edu. Email submissions should be sent as attachments in MS Word or Rich Text format. For submission guidelines go to www.njcu.edu/assoc/transformations.

Deadline: 31 March 2008

Published semi-annually by New Jersey City University

Edvige Giunta
Editor, Transformations
Department of English
New Jersey City University
2039 Kennedy Blvd.
Jersey City, NJ 07305

201-200-3086 (English Department)
201-200-3071 (Transformations)
201-200-3051 (Fax, Transformations)

egiunta@njcu.edu

http://faculty.njcu.edu/egiunta
http://web.njcu.edu/sites/transformations/

To receive information on special issues of Transformations, calls for papers, and upcoming events subscribe to the Transformations list-serv.

PLA is seeking interested parties to submit virtual poster sessions as
part of the first-ever PLA Virtual Conference. The PLA Virtual
Conference will be held March 27 and 28 during the live PLA National
Conference in Minneapolis.

The topic of the poster session can be of the applicant's choosing, but
must be related to public librarianship. Virtual posters can be
submitted as Web pages, PowerPoint presentations, or other formats which
can be "mounted" on the Web. Accepted posters will be mounted on the
PLA Virtual Conference Web site prior to the event. Presenters are also
welcome to participate in online discussions about their posters during
the Virtual Conference.

To apply, please send an email to khughes@ala.org, detailing your idea.
Please include the following: primary contact name, phone number, email
address, job title and institution, names of additional contributors,
title of proposed virtual poster session, brief abstract (150-200) words
describing your poster session, format of virtual poster (e.g. .doc,
.html, .pdf) and if any special files/software/effects will be
incorporated. We are able to do voice-over narration, so if you would
like to take advantage of that, just include it in your proposal.
Proposals are due by February 21, 2008 at 4:00 p.m. Selected proposals
will be notified by February 29, 2008.

The first-ever PLA Virtual Conference will offer librarians who are
unable to travel to Minneapolis the opportunity to participate in all
the excitement of a PLA National Conference. The Virtual Conference will
feature 10 education programs, special events, and networking
opportunities.

For more information about the Virtual Conference and PLA 2008, visit
the National Conference Web site at www.placonference.org
http://www.placonference.org/. For more information about other PLA
events and programs, contact the PLA office at pla@ala.org or
800-545-2433, ext. 5PLA, or visit PLA's Web site at www.pla.org
http://www.pla.org/ .

PLA is a division of the American Library Association. PLA's core
purpose is to strengthen public libraries and their contribution to the
communities they serve. Its mission is to enhance the development and
effectiveness of public library staff and public library services.

ELUNA 2008, the annual meeting of the Ex Libris Users of North America, aims to offer Ex Libris customers and staff an opportunity to share information, experiences, best practices, and works in progress in an informal, collegial environment. Thought provoking content is encouraged to insure an interesting and worthwhile program. Presentation proposals are reviewed and selected by the ELUNA 2008 Conference Planning Committee.

Information about the conferernce can be found at http://www.hawaii.edu/uhlib/ELUNA08/ELUNA08PresenterInfo.html

The ELUNA 2008 Conference Planning Committee invites you to submit proposals for the poster session at the 2008 ELUNA Conference, July 30 - August 1, 2008, Long Beach, California.

Posters will be displayed in the meeting area throughout the conference. During the one-hour poster session, poster presenters will have the opportunity to present their projects in a relaxed and informal environment. Posters may address a wide range of topics related to any Ex Libris product or of interest to ELUNA members.

POSTER SUBMISSONS

Proposals are to be submitted through the following website. Please fill out the Poster Submission Form by April 30, 2008.

http://www.angelo.edu/services/library/eluna08proposalsubmissionform.html

POSTER GUIDELINES

For detailed guidelines, please see this website:

http://www.hawaii.edu/uhlib/ELUNA08/ELUNA08PosterGuidelines.html

NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE

You will receive acceptance notification by e-mail no later than May 30, 2008

This is a great opportunity to try out new ideas and receive instant feedback from your colleagues. We sincerely hope you will consider submitting a proposal.

If you have any questions, please send email to Chulin Meng (cmeng@luc.edu).

The Convenors of Information Online 2009, Linden Fairbairn and Kay Harris, welcome you to the 14th Information Online Conference & Exhibition. The Conference & Exhibition will be held at Darling Harbour Exhibition and Convention Centre, Sydney from the 20th to 22nd January 2009.

Information Online 2009 is already shaping up to be the biggest event we have ever held. For 2009 the Executive Committee is looking forward to presenting delegates with an innovative programme, so are calling for papers that will educate and inspire the delegates.

Papers for 2009 can be nominated for peer-review. If you would like to submit a paper, please download the details from our website:

www.information-online.com.au. Deadline for submitting is 28th March 2008.

The 5th International Lifelong Learning Conference will be held 16-19 June 2008 at Rydges Resort, Yeppoon, Queensland. The theme is Lifelong Learning: Reflecting on Successes and Framing Futures. Potential authors, presenters and workshop conveners are invited to submit abstracts (maximum of 300 words) addressing the Conference theme. Suggested sub themes are available for consideration, but are not intended to limit the imagination.

The closing date for the submission of abstracts is 7 September 2007. Abstracts for refereed papers, presentations, workshops and symposia sessions will be assessed by the Program Committee and authors will be notified of the result by the end of September 2007. At that time a Word template for writing the paper and an Endnote style will be available. Full papers are to be submitted (by email attachment) by 29 February 2008.

The Conference offers a variety of options:
1. Submission and presentation of a refereed paper
2. Presentation of a non-refereed paper
3. Presentation of a workshop
4. Presentation of a symposium session
For more information on the Call for Abstracts visit the 2008 Lifelong Learning Conference website at: http://lifelonglearning.cqu.edu.au/2008/

Authors, presenters and workshop conveners must be conference delegates. The estimated early bird registration fee for 3 nights, twin share accommodation, all meals included is $1246.00. Registration options will also be available for single days and without accommodation. Early bird deadline is 18 April 2008.

I look forward to seeing you at the Conference!
Regards
Graham Black
Chair 5th International Lifelong Learning Conference
Central Queensland University

http://www.unak.org.tr/unak08eng/ (for all detail)

At the present day, rapidly increasing information and constantly developing information technologies in various science fields have brought up information services being given quicker, more efficiently and economically in this field. In conformity with this, during the production, presentation and accession of information, it has obliged information professionals, computer specialists and librarians to work together.

UNAK General Meetings, performed in different universities in Turkey every year since 2001, This year It will be held in Yasar University-Izmir, Turkey in 9th-11th October 2008, under the name of ‘‘Information: Diversity and Awareness’’.

We are very proud to be attendance of this conference, and very glad that you come to participate in this conference.

THEMES;

· Information Management

· Information Systems

· Information Network

· Information Security

· Information Marketing

· Information Centers and Services

o Collection Management

o Bibliographic Control

o User Services

o Reference Services

o Periodicals

· Indexing

· Electronic Content Management

· e-Books and e-Journal

· Non-governmental Organizations(NGO)

· Consortium

· Open Source Archive

· Search Engine

· New Generation Information Services

o Web 2.0

§ Social Network

o Web 3.0

§ Semantic Web Site

· Publishing and e-Publishing

· Archive and Archive Systems

o Institutional Information and Document Management

o Digital Archive

· Copyright

· Innovation

· European Union(EU) Process

· Education, Life Long Education, Distance Education

· Information Literacy

Important Date

Call for papers will be open till 1 June 2008 (from Kamil Comlekci)

This is a call for articles for a special issue of _Library Hi Tech_, whose focus will be on new-look and open-source OPAC solutions. The editor of this special issue is looking for innovative and interesting ways that libraries are either adding 3rd party software front-ends to their OPACs, 3rd party software back-ends that power-use structured metadata, or open-source OPAC replacements as add-ons or are totally reconstructed for new uses and applications of the structured metadata. Applications that focus on user needs, user ease-of-use, and Library 2.0 ideas are especially encouraged.

If you are interested in submitting an article, please send a short proposal, discussing the topic and a suggested title, to the email below by March 30, 2008. Draft articles are due to the editor by October 1, 2008. Inquiries and questions are also welcome.

Dr. Brad Eden
Associate University Librarian for Technical Services and Scholarly Communication
University of California, Santa Barbara
Associate Editor, _Library Hi Tech_
eden@library.ucsb.edu

"Achievement Through Innovation"
October 14 - 16, 2008
San Jose, CA

Gain exposure for your work, your school and your district, and benefit from in-depth discussions with your peers when you become a speaker at Innovative Learning Conference 2008, October 14 - 16, in San Jose, CA. Share successful classroom practices, creative teaching and learning solutions, research, policies and products that show current or future promise for K-12 education.

The Innovative Learning Conference (ILC) 2008 is presented by CUE and FETC, two of the leaders in producing premier education technology conferences. This West Coast event returns a major education conference to Northern California and will attract education leaders not only from Western states, but from all over the country.

ILC 2008 is dedicated to advancing student achievement through innovative thinking and technology. It will feature hands-on workshops, concurrent sessions, meetings and exhibitions targeting teachers, principals, district administrators, curriculum designers, media specialists, technology directors and other educators.

ILC welcomes applications to present from education professionals representing all levels, content areas and specialties, as well as business and industry experts. If accepted, your presentation will be scheduled as one of the 55-minute sessions planned for the three-day conference.

For complete information on submission guidelines and access to the electronic application form: http://www.1105info.com/t.do?id=881407:626871

DON'T DELAY! Deadline for submissions is April 1, 2008.
FOR INFORMATION ON ILC 2008:
http://www.1105info.com/t.do?id=881408:626871

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS

A book edited by Maria Manuela Cunha, Eva Oliveira, António Tavares & Luís Ferreira
Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Portugal

Submission deadline: March 01, 2008

http://handbooksemanticweb.ipca.pt

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the "Handbook of Research on Social Dimensions of Semantic Technologies and Web Services" within your field of expertise related to the handbook topics.

Introduction:
“The web isn’t about what you can do with computers. It’s people and, yes, they are connected by computers. But computer science, as the study of what happens in a computer, doesn’t tell you about what happens on the web”. Tim Berners-Lee, NY Times, Nov 02, 2006.

The basic, underlying idea of the Semantic Web project is to create a universally recognized medium for exchanging information by giving meaning (semantics) to the contents of documents on the web in a way understandable by machines. The Semantic Web expands upon the WWW features through the introduction of standards, mark-up languages and the corresponding processing tools (e.g. inferential engines). The Semantic Web is now the most important influence on Web development.

A few years ago, it would have appeared impossible to develop a global web of semantically structured information to support inference. Now, semantic web is becoming a rapidly growing area in IT with emerging key developments, tools, and techniques that are engineering the web of the future, and determining a new way of accessing, using, and exploring information and creating knowledge.

The impact of IT on society, organizations, and individuals is growing as the power of the web is harnessing collective intelligence and knowledge. Today, the impact of IT on people and society has become a key challenge to semantic web and should be solved for semantic web to be effective.

The mission and overall objectives of this Handbook of Research:

The mission of the proposed book is to discuss the main issues, challenges, opportunities and trends related to this new technology, semantic web, that can transform the way we use information and knowledge. The Handbook of Research on Social Dimensions of Semantic Technologies and Web Services will be a comprehensive publication which presents the social and technological dimensions of semantic technologies and web services, as well as the current developments, practical solutions, and applications in the field of semantic technologies and web services.

The overall objectives are:

- To discuss the importance of semantic web and emerging developments.

- To introduce the state-of-the-art technology supporting semantic web.

- To introduce and discuss the challenges and impact associated with semantic web, online communities, social web, etc. from the social perspective.

- To introduce recent technological developments and associated human / social implications.

- To introduce relevant and recent developments and solutions (academic and industrial) addressing the several dimensions and issues of this book.

- To discussion the impact of semantic technologies and web services on several domains (organizational, social and technological).

- To discuss challenges and opportunities in semantic technologies and web services.

The book is intended to support both an academic audience (teachers, researchers and students, mainly of post-graduated studies) and professionals (system developers and IT specialists).

Recommended topics:

The book intends to collect the most recent contributions of the social and technological dimensions of this largely multidisciplinary field called Web Science. Recommended topics include, but are not limited to the following:

1. The technological dimension that enables and supports the following: data capturing, storing, access, and exploitation; data composing and integration; and aggregating value from data. The technological dimension includes:

- The semantic web philosophy, concepts, frameworks and enabling architectures.

- The semantic web components (for example, standards and tools of XML, OWL, RSS); ontology alignment; semantic publishing; semantic translation; semantic data web browsers and end-points; semantic content extraction; reasoning supporting adaptive semantic collaboration; collaborative, community-driven ontology construction, etc.

- Current development trends and relevant R&D projects.

2. The social and human dimension which explores motivations, benefits and emergent effects of semantic web, and includes, for example:

- analysis, visualization, and presentation of social networks; architectures of semantic participation; trust and privacy issues; quality analysis of socially generated semantic content; analysis of motivations and behaviour of social software users; knowledge acquisition and ontology management; the social semantic web (blogs, wikis, discussion lists); online communities.

3. The business and entrepreneurial perspective focusing on the added value of specific social semantic web applications

4. The impact, implications and challenges (social and technological) of semantic web:

- on individuals and communities; on learning; on organizations and business; on scientific knowledge; on research.

5. The ongoing developments and applications to:

- e-Business; knowledge management; e-Science; e-Learning; e-Community; e-Health.

6. Integration with other disciplines

Submission Procedure

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before March 01, 2008, a 2 page manuscript proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by March 10 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter organization guidelines. Full chapters (8,000 to 10,000 words) are expected to be submitted by May 31, 2008. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis.

The book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global, http://www.igi-global.com, publisher of the IGI Publishing (formerly Idea Group Publishing), Information Science Publishing, IRM Press, CyberTech Publishing Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference), and Medical Information Science Reference imprints in 2010.

*** Submissions should be forwarded electronically (Word document as attachment) to handbook.semantic.web@gmail.com. LaTex cannot be accepted.

*** For any questions, please contact us: handbook.semantic.web@gmail.com

Washington Interactive Technologies Conference
Sheraton Crystal City Hotel
Arlington, Virginia
August 20-22, 2008

Abstracts for presentations from knowledgeable professionals in industry, government, military, public education and academia are solicited to provide presentations which would be part of a comprehensive conference program on the latest interactive technologies as they are being applied to training, education and job performance improvement, including ways to implement technology, descriptions of education and technical skills applications, e-Learning, enterprise management, and instructional systems design, together with Knowledge Management systems.

The submissions should be in the form of individual presentations, panel discussions, and preconference tutorials. Topics of interest include:

Mobile Computing, Handhelds & PDAs

Using effective elearning and engaging distance learning for the enterprise
Pervasive computing devices and other ubiquitous computing technologies — from laptops to tablet PCs to PDAs to smartphones
Virtualization, Process Migration, Thin-client Computing, Network Mobility
Utilization of Mobile Enterprise Servers
Mobile Computing’s Impact on Workforce Productivity
Mobile Enterprise Asset Management Systems
Low Cost Computers
Wearable computing and networking
User interfaces and systems design
Mobile Authoring Tools
Knowledge Management Systems

Learning Management Systems (LMS)
Learning Content Managements Systems (LCMS)
LMS Interaction with other Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP)
LMS Interoperability standards (SCORM, AICC, IMS, IEEE)
Talent Management Systems
E-Learning, E-Training and Executive Training
Knowledge Management (KM) systems for operations improvement
Purchasing KM systems vs outsourcing (ASPs)
Implementing/Managing the Knowledge Management System
Gaming and Simulation for Training and
Job Performance Improvement

Online Games
Agent-Based gaming, Avatars, and Distributed environments
Game-based Learning
Massively Multiplayer Simulation (MMP)
Simulations and Games for Strategy and Policy Planning
Military Applications
Simulations Utilizing Problem Solving Tools
Customizable, Computer-based Interactive Simulations
Simulation gaming for Management Training
New Technologies & the Marketplace

Defining the Learning Marketplace
Market Issues and Barriers
Meeting Learner Goals and System Goals
Criteria for instructional design & delivery methods
Return on Investment (ROI) and Improved Productivity
Integrated Enterprise Learning and Performance Improvement
Content and Technology Interoperability Issues
Corporate Learning Portals vs. Application Service Providers (ASPs)
Instructional Systems Design

Blended Learning strategies
Strategies to address remote learners
Implementing Accessibility into e-Learning
Authoring tools for the Web and their effectiveness
Evaluation processes and assessment techniques
ISD for the Enterprise and Performance Improvement
Prototyping in the development process
Business cases for learning measurement
Acquiring metrics and developing budgets
20-2Presenters and Attendees would include the following:

Academic Professionals
Chief Learning Officers
Directors of E-Learning
Directors of Training and Development
E-learning Project Managers
Military and Industrial Trainers
Government Professionals and Managers
Performance Support Professionals
Managers of Training
Management and Training Consultants
Compliance Training Managers
Hardware and Software Systems Manufacturers
Education/Training Facilitators
Human Performance Technology Professionals
Instructional Designers
Instructional Systems Developers
Curriculum Developers
Content Developers
E-Learning Developers
Application Development Managers
Please submit abstract(s) of your proposed presentation(s) (up to 100 words per topic suggested). Abstracts will be considered for an individual presentation, or as a participant in a panel discussion. We are also seeking proposals for 1/2 day preconference tutorials related to the foregoing. A proceedings will be prepared and you should indicate whether you will provide a paper prior to the conference for inclusion in the proceedings. Abstract submissions should be received by March 17, 2008. If your abstract is accepted, papers should be submitted by August 1, 2008 in order to be included in the Conference Proceedings. Authors of accepted papers are expected to attend the conference, present their work to their peers, and transfer copyright. Primary speakers receive a complimentary registration to the conference. All other speakers will be required to pay a discounted conference registration fee.

Be sure to include the author’s name, title, organization, address, phone number, and email address. Accepted speakers will have their biographies included on the SALT® conference web site as well as a photo if this material is provided to SALT®. Submit on-line at www.salt.org or send to SALT, 50 Culpeper Street, Warrenton, VA 20186. Phone: 540-347-0055 / Fax: 540-349-3169 / email: DCprogram08@salt.org. The program schedule will consist of preconference tutorials on Tuesday, August 19, and the main conference presentation sessions on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, August 20-22.

Author’s Information

Be sure to include the author’s name, title, organization, address, phone number, and email address. In addition, relevant biographical information about the author(s) should be included with the abstract submission so it can be posted on the SALT® web site.

Key Dates to note

Deadline for Receipt of Abstracts: March 17, 2008

Notification of Acceptance: April 1, 2008

Submission of Papers: August 1, 2008

Conference Dates: August 20-22, 2008

To submit your abstract online, click here

For a PDF version of the Call for Papers go to http://www.salt.org/docs/call.pdf

To submit your abstract online http://www.salt.org/dc/washingtonP.asp?pn=submitabsinfo&ss=l

Society for Applied Learning Technology

50 Culpeper Street

Warrenton, Va 20186

Ph: (540) 347-0055 Fax: (540) 349-3169 Web: http://www.salt.org

( http://homepage.cs.latrobe.edu.au/ekpardede/uwsi2008/)
Perugia, Italy, 30 June 2008 - 3 July 2008

in conjunction with ICCSA'2008 ( http://www.iccsa.org/)

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

Ubiquitous Web Systems and Intelligence represents a vision of the future whereby information access and discovery is available everywhere. It integrates concepts of ubiquitous and pervasive computing, web computing, and intelligent systems, whereby people are able to access information from various sources using ubiquitous devices. These information may also be in a form of knowledge discovered by the system. All of these are realized through the use of ambient intelligence in which humans are surrounded by an environment which is sensitive and responsive to them.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

[1] Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing
- Mobile Information Systems
- Ubiquitous Web Access
- Location Aware and Location Dependent
- Web-Based Cooperative Work
- Wireless Web Intelligence
- Mobile User-Interface Design
- Languages and Tools for Mobile Applications
- Emerging Technology (Grid, P2P, Pervasive, Embedded Computing)

[2] Web Information Systems Management, Access and Discovery
- Web Databases, Web Warehousing, and Web OLAP
- Heterogenous Databases
- Data Models for the Web
- Web Software Lify Cycle
- Personalized Information Management
- Metadata
- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
- Web Mining and Farming
- Mobile Data Mining
- Multimodal Information Retrieval
- Ontology-Based Information Retrieval

[3] Web Knowledge and Intelligence
- Ontology Engineering
- Semantic Web
- Visualization of Information and Knowledge
- Web-Based Decision Support
- Web Intelligence
- Web Agents
- Ambient Intelligence
- Information Filtering and Recommender Systems
- Navigation Guides
- Web Intelligence Development Tools

[4] Web Business
- Business Intelligence
- E-Commerce and E-Business
- M-Commerce
- Web Services and Grid Services
- Web Marketing and Merchandising
- Web Auctions

[5] Human-Web Interaction
- Adaptive Web Interfaces
- Multimedia Data Processing and Representation
- Mobile Multimedia
- Mobile Web Design

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for Online Paper Submission: 28 February 2008
Notification of Acceptance: 28 March 2008
Camera Ready Papers and Pre-registration: 15 April 2008

SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS

Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by Springer-Verlag
as part of their Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. For initial submissions,
authors are strongly encouraged to use Springer's manuscript submission guidelines at
http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0&teaserId=45515&CENTER_ID=99829 .

We invite you to submit a draft of the paper of up to 16 pages in an LNCS format through the
ICCSA'2008 Cyberchair system ( http://cyb08.iccsa.org/).

IMPORTANT NOTE:
Since the workshop will have different due dates with the ICCSA general submission, please
ensure that you select UWSI'2008 during the submission!


POST WORKSHOP PUBLICATION

Selected papers will be invited to be extended for a publication in a UWSI'2008 special issue of the Intl. Journal of Web Information Systems
( http://emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/ijwis/ijwis.jsp),
Emerald Publishing

WORKSHOP ORGANIZER

David Taniar (dtaniar@gmail.com), Monash University, Australia
Eric Pardede (E.Pardede@latrobe.edu.au), La Trobe University, Australia
Wenny Rahayu (W.Rahayu@latrobe.edu.au), La Trobe University, Australia

WORKSHOP COMMITTEE

Agustinus Borgy Waluyo, I2R, Singapore
Dan J Kim, University of Houston Clear Lake, USA
Elisabeth Métais, CEDRIC/CNAM of Paris, France
Gustavo Rossi, LIFIA-UNLP, Argentina
Jairo Gutierrez, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Jemal H Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia
Key Pousttchi, University of Auburg, Germany
Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
Mafruz Ashrafi, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada
Mohamed Ali Feki, I2R, Singapore2
Stéphane Bressan, NUS, Singapore
Timothy K Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Vaclav Snasel, Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
To Be Added

CONTACT

Dr. Eric Pardede
Department of Computer Science & Computer Engineering
La Trobe University
Bundoora VIC 3083 - Australia
Email: E.Pardede[at]latrobe[dot]edu[dot]au

The next deadline for peer review submissions for Innovations in Practice, Theory and Research and Conference Spotlight is February 29th, 2008. All other submissions must be received by April 10th, 2008.

The electronic journal is a practitioner’s journal of The Partnership published twice a year. Articles may be contributed at any time for publication consideration. Potential articles are reviewed by members of an editorial review committee. Articles fall into several categories. Feature articles on theory & research and on innovations in practice are in-depth, peer-reviewed articles and fall in the range of 1,000 to 5,000 words. Other types of articles include viewpoints, conference presentations, profiles, news& announcements, professional development and reviews.

Jennifer Richard
Editor-in-Chief
Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research
The Partnership: The Provincial and Territorial Library Associations of Canada.

Contact Information:

Vaughan Memorial Library
Acadia University
Wolfville, NS
B4P 2R6

Web: http://journal.lib.uoguelph.ca//index.php/perj/

CALL FOR POSTER SESSION SPEAKERS
July 28 - 31, 2008
"Welcome to Next-Gen.EDU"

Gain exposure for your work, share your project results with peers, and have in-depth discussions with attendees. Become a poster session presenter for Campus Technology 2008 in Boston, July 28 - 31, 2008.

Campus Technology 2008 is the place where leading innovators and experts in technology for higher education will be guiding faculty, instructional designers, eLearning program managers, information technologists, and campus administrators into the new realm of teaching and learning in a Web 2.0 world.

FOR INFORMATION ON CAMPUS TECHNOLOGY 2008: http://www.1105info.com/omvpump_msxsqil.html

Poster sessions are hour-long presentations given during exhibit hall hours. Your poster presentation offers you the opportunity to address these leaders in a dedicated forum, and to receive feedback and input on your ideas and projects.

Suggested topic areas include:
* Students and immersive learning technologies
* Instructional design
* Emerging technologies for higher education
* Course management and collaborative learning environments
* Online and distance education
* ePortfolio systems and educational assessment

For complete information on how to submit a proposal, submission guidelines, plus a list of topics of particular interest, go to http://www.1105info.com/ybdwjbf_msxsqil.html

Submissions can now be made online through our electronic form:
http://www.1105info.com/eurmauu_msxsqil.html

**DON'T DELAY!**
Deadline for Poster session proposals is February 25, 2008!
http://www.1105info.com/zpvabpn_msxsqil.html

Call for Submissions

Consider submitting proposals for articles, book & software reviews, code snippets & algorithms, conference reports, opinion pieces, etc. to Code4Lib Journal.
Code4Lib Journal strives to fill a communication niche above simple description of software implementations but below pure theoretical digital library investigation. The editorial board is looking for content that is practical, demonstrates how to exploit technology to create digital library collections and services, or offers insight and forethought regarding the use of computers in any type of library setting. While articles in the journal should be of a high quality, they need not follow any formal structure or guidelines. Writers should aim for the middle ground between, on the one hand, blog or mailing-list posts, and, on the other hand, articles in traditional journals. We want publishing in the journal to be easy and painless, helping the community to share timely, relevant information that is currently shared all too rarely.
The first issue of the Code4Lib Journal was published in December 2007 and is available at http://journal.code4lib.org/issues/issue1. The second issue of Code4Lib Journal is well underway and set for publication in March. The third issue is not quite full. The Journal welcomes submissions at any time on a rolling acceptance basis. Proposals received by Friday, March 14, 2008 will receive consideration for publication in late June 2008. Upon provisional acceptance, authors will be given an article deadline, typically 6-8 weeks before journal publication.
Send in a submission. Your peers would like to hear what you are doing.
Submission of articles proposals and articles should be submitted electronically to c4lj-articles@googlegroups.com (a private list read only by C4LJ editors) in a format likely to be widely readable. The article should be accompanied by some brief author metadata and, if appropriate, disclosure statement (see below). We have no more precise specs at this time, but may develop some at a later date, and reserve the right to ask for submission in a different format if we have trouble with yours. Authors are welcome to contact the Editorial Committee (http://journal.code4lib.org/editorial-committee) with a proposal, rather than a complete article.
For more information, see our Article Guidelines (http://journal.code4lib.org/article-guidelines/) and the Journal's Process and Structure (http://journal.code4lib.org/process-and-structure/).

CFP: Access 2008

Location: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (map)

Date: October 1-3, 2008 (Hackfest: Oct 1; Conference: Oct 2-4)

CFP Deadline: Friday, February 22, 2008

URL: http://access2008.mcmaster.ca

Access is Canada's premier library technology conference, featuring a single stream of sessions that deal with technology planning, development, challenges and solutions. We are now accepting proposals for prepared talks on the following topics (other ideas are more than welcome):

open source software
national and provincial/state-wide consortia technology initiatives
information policy
digital and social media
library catalogue innovations
digitization projects
institutional repositories
end-user searching behaviours
protocols and metadata
customized web interfaces
...or anything else suitably geeky, innovative and/or awe-inspiring! Sessions are usually 45 minutes or 1 hour in length. Proposals should include:

your name, title, institutional affiliation, contact information, blog/website URL
100 word (max) abstract describing your proposed presentation
co-presenters you will (or hope to) present with
Submission Procedures:

deadline for submission is February 22, 2008.
send your proposal to Amanda Etches-Johnson, Program Chair, at etchesa@mcmaster.ca
each submission will be acknowledged and all presenters will be notified of the status of their proposal by April 15, 2008.
if you'd simply like to recommend topics and/or speakers (other than yourself), feel free to get in touch!
Depending on the number of submissions, we can't promise that every proposal will be accepted. However, we will have sessions set aside for Lightning/Thunder talks, which provide an informal opportunity to share your ideas with your peers.

For more information about Access, see the Access 2007 website at http://access2007.uvic.ca. Alternatively, feel free to get in touch with the members of the Program Planning Committee:

Amanda Etches-Johnson

etchesa@mcmaster.ca

Jenn Horwath

jhorwath@hpl.ca

GL10 CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT

Tenth International Conference on Grey Literature
Designing the Grey Grid for Informational Society
Science Park Amsterdam, Netherlands
December 8-9, 2008

Call for Papers can be found at:http://www.textrelease.com/callforpapers.html

ABOUT GL10 http://www.textrelease.com

The needs and demands of Information Society are in constant state of change and flux. Information overload, information loss, information-on-demand are among just a few of the many factors confronting information professionals, practitioners, and net-users on a daily basis.

To a great extent, grey literature is the cause of all this. For the past two decades grey literature has grown exponentially in relation to commercially published literature. The grey literature community realizes that while the challenges faced at the First International Conference on Grey Literature in 1993 may not have all been resolved, solutions today lay in a whole new order, on yet another scale and magnitude than ever before. GL10 seeks to address the challenges to grey literature that still remain, while dealing with even newer challenges and an infrastructure that can effectively integrate all.

The title of this year's conference, 'Designing the Grey Grid for Information Society' invokes an infrastructure, which must take into account social, political, and organizational factors. For these also impact system-to-system performance when dealing with the scale and diversity of information, data, document types, collections, and subject areas linked to grey literature. As such, interoperability becomes de facto a requirement in the design of the grey grid i.e. an infrastructure that can model and withstand the test of an ever changing Information Society.

PROPOSED SESSION THEMES:

* Born digital and web-based grey: Challenges for library systems and collections
* Interoperability in the Grey Grid: Data, metadata, datasets, and databanks
* Non-text and multimedia grey literature, Signs of our times
* Grey Life Cycle: Uses, applications, and impact of GL on Information Society
* Towards Grey Scholarship: Research, education, and other policy driven programmes

FOR MORE ON GL10

The GL-Conference Series is based on a Call-for-Papers that will follow shortly upon this announcement. Likewise, a monthly conference memorandum will be issued by the Program and Conference Bureau in order to keep delegates, authors, participants, and other information professionals informed on the progress of the Tenth International Conference on Grey Literature. If you would like to receive a free copy of this monthly publication, please let us know.

CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS

TextRelease
GL10 Program and Conference Bureau
Javastraat 194-HS
1095 CP Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Tel/Fax: +31(0)20-331.2420
Email: conference@textrelease.com
http://www.textrelease.com
http://www.greynet.org

>> Call for Participation Deadline: April 29th <<

http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/call.htm
_______________________________________________________________

E-Learn 2008

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate,
Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education

November 17-21, 2008 * Las Vegas, Nevada
(Riviera Hotel & Casino Convention Center)

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

** Submission Deadline: April 29, 2008 **

Organized by:
Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)
(http://www.aace.org)
Co-sponsored by:
International Journal on E-Learning
(http://www.aace.org/pubs/ijel)
______________________________________________________________

COLOR POSTER--E-Learn 2008 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Available to Print & Distribute (PDF to print; 200kb)
http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/EL08poster.pdf

>> CONTENTS & LINKS (details below) <<

1. Submission Information, Deadline April 29th:
Call for Presentations: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/call.htm
Submission Guide: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/submitguide.htm
Presenter Guide: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/PresenterLounge

2. Major Topics: www.aace.org/conf/elearn/topics.htm
3. Presentation Categories: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/categories.htm

4. Products/Services Showcases & Presentations: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/corporate.htm

5. Proceedings & Paper Awards: http://www.aace.org/pubs
6. For Budgeting Purposes: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/rates.htm

7. Las Vegas, Nevada: http://www.aace.org/conf/cities/lasvegas/defaultEL.htm
8. Deadlines: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/deadlines.htm

** What are your colleagues saying about E-Learn conferences? **
http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/testimonials.htm

INVITATION:
E-Learn 2008 -- World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education is an international, annual conference which serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the exchange of information on research, development, and applications of all topics related to e-Learning in these four sectors.

E-Learn Is Unique:
http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/unique.htm
E-Learn is an innovative collaboration between the top public and private academic researchers, developers, education and business professionals, and end users from the Corporate, Healthcare, Government, and Higher Education sectors.

All presentation proposals are reviewed and selected by a respected, international Executive Advisory Board (http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/exec.htm) and Program Committee, based on merit and the perceived value for attendees.

E-Learn, the premiere international, non-commercial conference in the field, spans all
disciplines and levels of education and attracts more than 1,000 attendees
from over 70 countries. We invite you to attend E-Learn and submit
proposals for presentations.

All presentation proposals are peer reviewed and selected by three
reviewers on the respected international Program Committee for inclusion in the
conference program, proceedings book, and CD-ROM proceedings.

PROGRAM ACTIVITIES:
* Keynote Speakers
* Invited Panels/Speakers
* Papers
* Best Practice Sessions
* Roundtables
* Demonstrations/Posters
* Research/Technical Showcases
* Products/Services Showcases
* Tutorials/Workshops

SUBMISSION INFORMATION:
For Call for Presentations, connect to:
http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/call.htm

All authors MUST follow the submission guidelines and complete the Web form
at: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/submitguide.htm

For Presentation and AV Guidelines, see:
http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/PresenterLounge

TOPICS:
http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/topics.htm

The scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to, the following topics as they relate to the e-Learning and the technologies supporting e-Learning.

1. Sectors or Application Domains:
General & Cross-Domain
Corporate
Government
Health Care
Higher Education
Informal Learning (Museums, Communities, Homes)
K-12
Military Training
Professional Associations & Non-Profits

2. Major Topics relating to or technologically supporting E-Learning:
Content Development
Evaluation
Implementation Examples and Issues
Instructional Design
Policy Issues
Research
Social and Cultural Issues
Standards and Interoperability
Tools and Systems

3. Specific Topic Examples:
Accessibility
Asynchronous Learning
Authoring Tools
Building E-Learning Architectures
Collaborative Learning
Community Building
Courseware Development
Customer Training
Developing an Organizational e-Learning Strategy
Developing, Integrating, and Delivering E-Learning Solutions
Digital Libraries for E-Learning
Distance Learning
Electronic Publishing Tools for E-Learning
Evaluation/Performance Measurement & Assessment
Good Practice Concepts & Examples
Human-Computer Interaction
Industry-University Partnering
Infrastructure of E-Learning Environments
Innovative Curriculum in E-Learning
Instructional Design for E-Learning
Intelligent E-Learning Technology
Interactive E-Learning Systems
Knowledge Management in E-Learning
Learning & Content Management Systems
Management of Learning Resources
Marketing/Promoting Learning Activities
Multimedia-based E-Learning Systems
Organizational E-Learning Strategies
Pedagogical & Issues
Policy and Law
Quality Management and Assessment in E-Learning
Research Perspectives for E-Learning
Simulations
Societal Issues, Including Legal, Standards, & International Issues
Virtual Universities, Classrooms, and Laboratories

PRESENTATION CATEGORIES:
http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/categories.htm
The Technical Program includes a wide range of interesting and useful
activities designed to facilitate the exchange of ideas and information.

PRODUCTS/SERVICES SHOWCASES & PRESENTATIONS:
http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/corporate.htm
Organizations have the opportunity to demonstrate and discuss their e-learning related
products and services in through Products/Services Showcases & Presentations.

PROCEEDINGS & PAPER AWARDS:
http://www.aace.org/pubs
Accepted papers will be published by AACE in the Proceedings Book and on
CD-ROM. Proceedings in this series serve as major resources in the multimedia/
hypermedia/telecommunications community, reflecting the current state of
the art in the discipline. In addition, the Proceedings also are
internationally distributed through and archived in EdITLib--
Education and Information Library, http://www.EdITLib.org/

Selected papers may be invited for publication in may be invited for
publication in AACE's respected journals especially in the
- International Journal on E-Learning (IJEJ),
- Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia (JEMH), or
- Journal of Interactive Learning Research (JILR).

All presented papers will be considered for Outstanding Paper Awards within
several categories. Award winning papers may be invited for publication in
the AACE journals.

FOR BUDGETING PURPOSES:
http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/rates.htm
The conference registration fee for all presenters and participants will be
approximately $395 U.S. (AACE members), $465 U.S. (non-members).
Registration includes proceedings on CD, receptions, and all sessions
except tutorials. The conference dinner (if offered) will be an extra fee.

All conference sessions will be held at the Riviera Hotel & Casino Convention Center (http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/hotel.htm) located in the heart of Las Vegas shows, shopping, dining, and attractions. Special discount hotel have been obtained for E-Learn participants at $129 (single/double).

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA: Experience the Shows, Dining, Shopping, Attractions, & Tours!
http://www.aace.org/conf/cities/lasvegas/defaultEL.htm

Las Vegas, an ever-changing fantasy-land of a city, has seen unbelievable expansion since it emerged from the desert 100 years ago. Las Vegas continues to build upon its reputation as a vibrant showcase for the extraordinary. This is the city that attracts more than 38 million visitors a year by offering the grandest hotels, the biggest stars in entertainment, the highest caliber of award-winning chefs and master sommeliers, and, of course, the brightest lights.

Las Vegas offers unmatched entertainment. While planning an evening of entertainment, look to the growing roster of gourmet restaurants and unparalleled wine and food adventures in Las Vegas. A host of fine dining and lifestyle magazines have honored the city for its fantastic fare and hailed individual restaurants for their exquisite cuisine,

A shoppers paradise. Drawing an influx of designers and upscale specialty boutiques, Las Vegas has become one of the premium world-class shopping destinations in the country.

It's not just a conference. it's also a vacation! So plan to join us in Las Vegas for E-Learn 2008, a great conference in one of the world's greatest destinations.

For further Las Vegas information, see:
http://www.visitlasvegas.com

DEADLINES:
http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/deadlines.htm

Submissions Due: April 29, 2008
Authors Notified: May 30, 2008
Proceedings File Due: Sept. 24, 2008
Early Registration: Sept. 24, 2008
Conference: Nov. 17-21, 2008

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Contact:
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P.O. Box 1545
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Call for Papers

19th Annual Conference

International Information Management Association

13-15 October 2008

San Diego, California USA

Theme: Convergence ~ People, Process and Technology

The International Information Management Association (IIMA) annual conferences promote the dynamic exchange of ideas among leading researchers, educators, developers and practitioners who share their research and disseminate innovations in education, business and government. The 19th Annual Conference of the IIMA is devoted to presenting and examining information technology issues in our global networked environment.

Conference topics include, but are not limited to:

· Distance learning and innovative teaching techniques

· Artificial Intelligence-Decision Making

· Supply Chain Management

· Electronic commerce applications and innovations - public and private

· Web issues, technology, and tools

· ERP and manufacturing issues

· Networks and wireless technologies

· International, cultural and societal implications

· Database and Intelligent systems

· Organizational issues and case studies

· Business Process Re-Engineering

· Security, privacy, legal and ethical issues

· Medical & Clinical Informatics

· International Issues

· Information Assurance

· Assurance of Learning Topics

· Outsourcing

· Global Impacts on Economics

Submission of Papers:

Submissions to IIMA 2008 must not already have been published in a journal, presented at another conference, or be currently under consideration for publication or presentation elsewhere. All submissions will be reviewed by the track chairs, program committee and selected reviewers. All reviews are double blind. The editorial board will make the final determination whether the accepted papers are published in the IIMA 2008 Proceedings. The best papers will be sent on to the Editors of the Communications of the IIMA for possible consideration. The Communications of the IIMA is a refereed, serial publication of IIMA that is registered with the US Library of Congress (ISSN: 1543-5970). See www.IIMA.org for the on-line version of past issues.

Format of Submitted Papers:

Papers should follow the style recommended by the American Psychological Associations (APA) Publication Manual. The language of the conference and related publications is English. Each accepted paper must be presented at the conference and be accompanied by paid registration. Each submitted paper must include an abstract and must conform to the following format: First Page: Title, authors, address, phone, fax, email address, abstract. Second and subsequent pages: Title, full manuscript (limited to 25 double-spaced pages). Accepted conference papers will be notified by June 1, 2008.

Please submit an electronic copy in MS Word format to the Program Chair, Dr. Joseph Chan Jchan@roosevelt.edu no later than May 1, 2008. Any submission that is received after the deadline, exceeds length requirements, or does not adhere to the format will be rejected without review.

Submission Panel or Workshop:

The conference will feature sessions on topics of special interest. To propose a panel, contact the program chair and provide the session topic and a list of 3-5 potential panelists. To propose a workshop, contact Dr. Frank Lin Flin@csusb.edu with a short description of the proposed workshop.

Submission Deadline: May 1, 2008

Conference Acceptance Notification: June 1, 2008

Final Version Due: July 1, 2008

CIIMA Journal Notification: Rolling Acceptance

ALT is seeking paper submissions for a Special issue of our ALT Journal (ALT-J). Details are as follows:

LEARNING AND TEACHING IN IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL WORLDS
A special issue of ALT-J, Research in Learning Technology

Immersive virtual worlds (IVWs), such as Second Life, Active Worlds, Croquet and Forterra and massive multi-player games (MMPGs), such as EverQuest and World of Warcraft represent a paradigm shift in learning technology, and an important challenge to the world of education. The aim of this special issue of ALT-J is to develop and publish a timely collection of papers representing current research, developments and ideas in educational applications of IVWs and MMPGs. Of particular interest are papers that go beyond descriptions of objects and activities to build links between practice and pedagogy, and offer conceptual, methodological and analytical rigour.

Full details of how to submit can be found at:
http://www.alt.ac.uk/callforpapers_altj_ivw.html.

For queries and guidance relating to the call please contact:
Robert Ward r.d.ward@hud.ac.uk
or
Maggi Savin-Baden m.savinbaden@coventry.ac.uk

Important dates:
- Until 22 February 2008: Submission of abstracts and formal/informal response from Special Issue Editors.
- Submission of full papers: 31st March 2008.

Kind regards
Marion
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Association for Learning Technology
Telephone: +44 (0) 1865 484405
Fax: +44 (0) 1865 484165
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http://www.alt.ac.uk/
ALT Conference, 9-11 September 2008, http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2008/ --
Our Email response policy can be found at:
http://www.alt.ac.uk/contact.html#Email

CALL FOR POSTER SESSION PROPOSALS

NASIG 23rd Annual Conference, June 5-8, 2008
Tapatio Cliffs Hilton Resort, Phoenix, Arizona

The NASIG Program Planning Committee (PPC) invites poster
session proposals for the 23rd Annual NASIG conference in
Phoenix, Arizona, June 5-8, 2008. The theme of the
conference is "Taking the Sting Out of Serials." Posters
will be on display 9:30-5:30 on Friday, June 6th. Presenters
should be available to discuss their topics during two break
periods during this day.

Poster sessions provide an opportunity to share innovative
ideas and new applications of technology. Sessions may
present a report of a research study, an analysis of a
practical problem-solving effort, or a description of an
innovative program that may be of interest to the serials
community. In keeping with NASIG's tradition of
non-commercialism, poster sessions focusing solely on a
commercial product will not be accepted. Additional
guidelines for poster sessions are available:
http://www.nasig.org/public/postersguidelines.html.

To apply, complete the online application form at:
http://www.nasig.org/public/forms/poster.html

Deadline for submission: Applications must be received by 5
p.m. EST on Thursday, March 15, 2008. Members of the PPC's
Sub-committee on Poster Sessions will evaluate abstracts.
Presenters will be notified by April 2, 2008.

Inquiries may be sent to the PPC co-chairs, Erika Ripley and
Sarah Wessel at: prog-plan@nasig.org

The Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative was started to advocate for a complete rethink of the way libraries conduct resource sharing in the context of the global internet revolution. In order to showcase resource sharing innovation, the Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative has created an award to encourage libraries and librarians to make changes in how they do resource sharing and improve service to users.

Up to three winning submissions will be awarded a cash prize of $1,000 each. Recipients will be announced at the ALA RUSA STARS Rethinking Resource Sharing ALA Preconference on June 27, 2008 in Anaheim, CA, and also will be invited to present at the IFLA satellite preconference, Rethinking Access to Information: Evolving Perspectives on Information Content Delivery in Boston in August 2008. Funding for the 2008 Innovation Awards was provided by the Alliance of Library Service Networks www.librarynetworks.org

To be considered for the award, please submit a description of the user-centric service change you have made that has improved resource sharing in your library, consortium or state. Full details for submission can be found at www.rethinkingresourcesharing.org.

The deadline for applications/nominations is May 15, 2008 (post-mark or date of e-mail).

Submissions are sent to the chair of the Rethinking Resource Sharing Innovation Awards

Committee:
Anne K Beaubien

Director, Cooperative Access Services

Grants Officer

University of Michigan Library

920 North University

106 Hatcher Graduate Library

Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1205

(734) 936-2322 fax (734) 647-2050

beaubien@umich.edu

21 to 24 Sep 2008 - Bangkok, Thailand
www.icmit2008.org

ABOUT ICMIT

ICMIT2008 is the 4th International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology, first initiated by the IEEE Engineering Management Society Singapore Chapter in 2000. ICMIT2008 intends to bring together scholars, industrialists, and entrepreneurs interested in improving their research and development, and business applications in innovation and technology management across a global network of diverse platforms. This conference is co-sponsored by IEEE Singapore Section and IEEE Technology Management Council.

ICMIT 2008 invites papers on but not limited to the following topics:

Technology Management

Innovation Policy and Management

Process Innovation

Managing IT and E-Commerce

Intellegent Systems

Knowledge Management

Project Management

Supply Chain Management

Sustainable Development

Global Production Network

Technology Intelligence and Planning

New Product Development

Entrepreneurship

Human Resource Management

Intellectual Property Right and Patent

R&D Management

Risk Management

Six Sigma and Quality Management

Service Science and Innovation

Authors are requested to submit full papers to the ICMIT 2008 conference via the conference website. The full paper should be no longer than 6 pages, including title of the paper, keywords, name and affiliation of the authors. All submissions will be peer-reviewed for technical merit and content. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings which will appear in IEEEXplore database and indexed by Engineering Index (EI). For more information, please visit www.icmit2008.org

Deadline for submission of papers: 1 APRIL, 2008

Notifications of acceptance: 1 JUNE, 2008

Deadline for submission of final manuscript: 1 JULY, 2008

About Bangkok

Affectionately known as "The Land of Smiles", the Kingdom of Thailand is one of the most fascinating countries in Asia. This reflects on charm and friendly attitude of Thai people. Over the last few decades, Thailand's capital city, Bangkok, has changed into a modern, exciting and sophisticated city. It offers to visitors not only the cosmopolitan amenities they would expect from other big cities, but also a unique treasure trove of cultural attractions.

Bangkok offers visitors the opportunity to experience fascinating glimpse of Thailand's gentle culture amidst a great and dynamic metropolis. For visitors, Bangkok has a feast of attractions to offer. The city is dotted with glittering Buddhist temples of great beauty and fascination, magnificent palaces, classical dance extravaganzas, numerous shopping centres and traditional ways of life, especially along the timeless river, the Chao Phraya River, winding through the city.

CONFERENCE MANAGER

Meeting Matters International

25 Hindoo Rd

Singapore 209116

Tel: (65) 6341 7229

Fax: (65) 6341 7269

Enquiries & Assistance

Email: info@icmit2008.org

www.icmit2008.org

CALL FOR PAPERS

Mission of IJEGR:

The primary coverage of the International Journal of Electronic Government Research (IJEGR) is to supply academicians, practitioners, and professionals with quality applied research results in the field of electronic/digital government, its applications and impacts on governmental organizations around the world. It is the intention of this prestigious research journal to effectively and positively provide organizational and managerial directions with greater use and management of electronic/digital government technologies in organizations. Given these objectives, we hope to epitomize the research available within e-government, while exponentially emphasizing the expansiveness of this field.

Coverage of IJEGR:

Accessibility of e-government Web sites
Administrative reform through e-government
Assessment of e-government projects
Anti-spam legislation and solutions
Applications of e-commerce in government
Avoidance of technology pitfalls in e-government development
Best practices in e-government
Building government-to-government enterprises
Citizen services
Cyber-infrastructure
Cyber public relations
Data protection and data privacy
Digital government online education
Digital rights management
E-commerce in a digital economy
E-justice
Electronic government applications
Electronic voting
E-planning
Electronic government-to-government collaboration
E-government databases
E-government implementation
Implementation
Future directions of electronic government
Governing health care with IT
Governance and electronic democracy
Government to business
Identity management and citizen privacy
Immigration and digital government
Implementing e-government systems in transition economics
Impacts/implications of electronic government
Information access
Information policy
Information privacy
Information security
Inter-agency information sharing in e-government
Internal government processes and intranets
International integration/collaboration of e-governments
Intrusion detection and prevention
IT management issues in digital government
Ontology for e-government public services
Local e-governments
Managing IT outsourcing for digital government
Measurement of performance
Multi-level governance
Public and private partnerships management
Security and reliability
Social issues of trust and e-government
Strategic management of electronic government
Technology adoption and diffusion
Teledemocracy

Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript submission guidelines at www.igi-global.com/ijegr .

All inquiries and submissions should be sent to: Editior-in-Chief: Dr. Mehdi Kosrow-Pour, ijegr@igi-global.com

Indiana University of Pennsylvania
110 Leonard Hall
Indiana, PA 15705-1094
website: http://www.english.iup.edu/publications/works&days/
phone: (724) 357-6486

Works & Days

Special Issue Call For Papers:
Invisible Battlegrounds: Feminist Resistance in the Global Age of War and Imperialism

In the contemporary global era of capitalism, as imperialism and war have emerged as dominant geopolitical forces, feminist analysis is, more than ever, urgently needed. Women's lives are affected disproportionately by violently imposed global restructuring, even as feminist attempts to create alternatives to exploitative and environmentally destructive forms of capitalist accumulation are largely neglected by dominant institutions and representations. Feminist critique of contemporary capitalism has, in fact, developed diverse approaches and strategies, among which notably include feminist theorizing within the areas of postcolonial, transnational, Marxist, and environmental thought. Feminist writers and thinkers working in these areas provide an invaluable analysis of the inherent connections among capitalism, war, and imperialism, and of the repressions of race, class, and gender that are required by capitalism to maintain unjust divisions of labor and resources. Also, their work provides vital oppositional images, identities, and narratives, ones attuned to mutual interdependency and the principles of social justice, sustainability, and radical democracy. This issue of Works & Days seeks to bring together theoretical work and cultural critique of anti-war feminist scholars and activists from across social locations and disciplines. This Special Issue invites papers that will:

•Explore how contemporary feminist theory and literature construct critique and opposition to prevailing patriarchal formations of race, gender, and class, particularly in connection with escalating violence against women and exploitation of labor and land.

•Investigate the ways civil wars and conflicts can be traced to earlier eras of capitalist and imperialist restructuring that reinforced, if not created, reifying divisions and hierarchies of race, ethnicity, and religion.

•Reflect on the ways that capitalism and imperialism reinforced, and often reinvented, patriarchal formations of the family and state. Now often referred to as client or peripheral states of imperialist centers, state power also sometimes relies on paternalistic forms of nationalism that imply polarized patriarchal gender identities, class power, and often elite claims of ethnicity and religion. This state power has taken the form of extreme militarism as well.

•Examine the profound changes in patriarchal orders as a result of war and occupation that organize the meanings of gender, especially of heavily gendered spaces, objects, or processes, such as the boundaries between home and street, private and public, friend and stranger, nature and culture.

•Consider how many contemporary social contradictions coalesce around heavily loaded metaphors, images, narratives, or signs of gender in transnational contexts—such as the veil, female genital mutilation, and so on.

•Theorize intensified commodification and privatization which aggravate contradictions between classes and locations and, especially, between women in different classes.

•Critique theories of imperialism, especially the powerfully influential Leninist notion that “imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism” but also Hardt & Negri's theory of Empire and David Harvey's of New Imperialism.

It is hoped that this Special Issue will generate insight into the “mine-field” of overlapping, sometimes reinforcing, sometimes contradictory, patriarchal formations of the family, state, and imperialism under contemporary capitalism.

Please send abstracts or proposals of 250-500 words for articles by August 1, 2008 via email to scomfort@iup.edu or by regular mail to Susan Comfort, Department of English, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA 15705. Notification of acceptance will be forthcoming no later than October 1, 2008. The deadline for completion of articles is June 30, 2009.

April 19, 2008
San Diego State University, San Diego
Call for Proposals

Revolutions have come to signify a myriad of different resistances to power formations throughout history. They have morphed and adapted to fit the diverse needs of people of different races, classes, genders and sexualities in distinctive geo-political locations. Feminism and Queer Theory have themselves contributed to new faces of revolution and new methods of reclamation. This conference is dedicated to exploring how the "faces" of revolution themselves have adapted to these changes and are continuing to adapt in this era of globalization. We solicit proposals from students (undergraduate and graduate), faculty members, community activists, and independent scholars for workshops, panels, roundtable discussions, individual
presentations, artistic and multimedia presentations, performances, and practical applications.

In this re-conceptualization of revolution, we will take into account new technologies, scientific discoveries and discourses; (post)-colonialism and imperialism; art, literature, popular culture
and new medias; and language, philosophy, and education with a focus on the lives and bodies of women and queers, who have historically been marginalized within discussions of reclamation and revolution. While we encourage presentations on the conference theme, proposals dealing with all areas of Women's Studies research are welcomed.

Proposals should be submitted via e-mail, preferably as Word attachments, to: PSWSA08@gmail.com

Proposals must include: Title; abstract (100 word maximum); contact person's name, address, e-mail, and phone number; presenter name(s) with academic and/or community affiliation; format (e.g., workshop, panel, roundtable discussion, artistic presentation, or performance),
and audio/visual equipment requirements. (Equipment requests must be included with original proposal.)

Proposal Deadline: Friday, February 29, 2008.

For more information, visit http://pswsa.nwsa.org or contact Monica
Bradley at PSWSA08@gmail.com or (813) 361-2777.

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED FOR ATTENDANCE AND PRESENTATION

The Gender and Sexualities Taskforce (GST) plans to sponsor one or more organized panels at the Society for Ethnomusicology's 53rd annual meeting to be held October 25-28, 2008, at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT.

Interested scholars should submit proposals directly to the GST that relate both to the GST's mission and the conference themes (see below); we seek both
(1) organized panels of three or four papers
(2) individual papers that we can group into organized panels

SEM's submission deadline is March 15, 2008; in order to meet that submission deadline, GST should receive proposals for GST-sponsored panels by March 1, 2008. Please email your proposals to Henry Spiller (hjspiller@ucdavis.edu).

The Gender and Sexualities Taskforce is an SEM Section devoted to encouraging the study of music, gender, and sexuality, and to exploring issues of gender and sexuality as they impact the professional lives of ethnomusicologists. We welcome the participation of scholars conducting research in music and sexualities cross-culturally as well as within their own societies. Our goals include promoting communication and diversity within SEM with special
regard to the concerns of scholars, students, and public sector advocates identifying variously as, but not limited to: lesbian, gay, bisexual, two-spirited, homosexual, and transgendered. We are concerned about widely diverse issues, including increased life chances and professional advancement, for members of these constituencies across lines of nation, religion, gender, race, class, and ethnicity. For more information, see the GST's website at
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/music/SEM/SEM_Home.html

The conference theme for the 2008 meeting will be "Ethnomusicology
Beyond Disciplines." Specific themes are:

Ethnomusicology and Advocacy
Musical Innovation and Experimentation
De-Centering the Western Art Music Canon
The Ethnomusicology of Film
Music and Spirituality
Overlooked Musical Traditions

The conference themes intersect well with GST's interests; topics for GST-sponsored panels might include
- advocating for gender/sexualities justice
- queer composers as Others
- gay/lesbian musical subcultures

Abstracts should conform to SEM's guidelines (one paragraph of no more than 250 words, devoid of names or other identifying information).

SEM's complete call for papers and submission instructions and guidelines are available at
http://www.indiana.edu/~ethmusic/documents/SEM2008_call_for_presentations_12_19_07.pdf

Dear Colleague,

On behalf of the Conference Organising Committee, we would like to inform you of the:

THE EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE, CULTURE AND CHANGE IN ORGANISATIONS, Cambridge University, United Kingdom, 5-8 August 2008
http://www.ManagementConference.com

The primary interest of the Management Conference is knowledge-based social and economic change. Driven by globalisation and advances in information and communications technologies, this change has been characterised in terms of emerging information/knowledge societies and a global knowledge-based economy.

The Conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. We would particularly like to invite you to respond to the Conference Call-for-Papers. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication in the fully refereed International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organisations. If you are unable to attend the Conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in this fully refereed academic Journal, as well as access to the electronic version of the Conference proceedings.

The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 13 March 2008. Proposals are reviewed within three weeks of submission. Full details of the Conference, including an online proposal submission form, are to be found at the Conference website - http://www.ManagementConference.com

We look forward to receiving your proposal and hope you will be able to join us in Cambridge in August 2008.

Yours Sincerely,

Martin Laycock
The University of Greenwich, London and Managing Transitions
For the Advisory Board, International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organisations

Call for Chapters
Hybrid Book/Wiki Publication
"Library 2.0 Initiatives in Academic Libraries"
An ACRL Monograph
Editor: Laura B. Cohen

Library 2.0 is a response to the revolution in the way library users
create, edit, seek, use, organize and share information. Many observers
agree on several guiding principles of Library 2.0. These include the
use of social information tools favored by users; building personalized,
participatory library services driven by user needs; an embrace of
radical trust; taking the library to users; and rapid change mobilized
by assessment.

Academic libraries are spearheading Library 2.0 innovations, but many
libraries remain out of the loop. "Library 2.0 Initiatives in Academic
Libraries" will be a hybrid book and post-publication wiki presenting
case studies of Library 2.0 initiatives and will serve as a guide to
action. It is the first professional library publication of its type.

"Library 2.0 Initiatives in Academic Libraries" will consist of case
study chapters on a range of significant Library 2.0 initiatives taking
place in academic libraries throughout the world. Following its
publication, the authors will maintain follow-up reports on a wiki that
will track the subsequent evolution of their initiatives. These reports
can be tracked on the wiki site or by RSS feed.

The book and wiki will be published by the Association of College &
Research Libraries.

Recommended topics: Acceptable topics cover a range of significant
initiatives that embody the guiding principles of Library 2.0. Topics
may cover functional beta initiatives.

Chapter topics, and any combinations of these topics, may include but
are not limited to the following:

2.0-enhanced Web sites
Assessment of Library 2.0 initiatives
Blogging
Delivering customizable content
Engaging staff in Library 2.0 principles and practices
Engaging students in library planning and assessment
Gaming
IM communication
Innovative user-centered services in physical spaces
Library Web sites as community spaces
Mashups
Mobile computing-enhanced online spaces
OPAC innovations
Podcasting, videocasting, Web conferencing
Privacy and 2.0
RSS content delivery
Social bookmarking
Social networking tools used for outreach, community conversations,
teaching, research, etc.
Student collaboration in developing library services
Tagging
Taking the library to users in both physical and online spaces
Wiki publishing

Submissions: Individuals interested in contributing to this publication
are invited to e-mail a proposal to the editor. Significant writings
about the initiative should not have appeared elsewhere. The proposal
should be approximately 500 words and consist of your name, affiliation,
working title of the chapter, abstract, description of the initiative
and plans for its future development. Proposals should include a
statement that the author(s) agree to maintain periodic project updates
on the post-publication wiki for a period of at least two years
following publication of the book.

Please e-mail your proposal in an attached document to Laura B. Cohen,
editor, at lcohen@uamail.albany.edu by March 1, 2007. You will be
notified about the status of your submission by April 1, 2007. Following
acceptance of proposals, authors will have three months to prepare
chapters of 5,000-7,000 words. The book has an estimated publication
date of fall 2007.

______________________________
Laura B. Cohen
Web Support Librarian
LI-140 University at Albany, SUNY
1400 Washington Avenue
Albany, NY 12222
Voice: 518-442-3492
Fax: 518-442-3088

Call for Papers
The Avant-Garde as Critical Practice
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
Deadline: 15 August 2008

In this special issue, we are looking for contributions that acknowledge the legacies of various avant-garde movements as they have affected the genre known, for better or worse, as "criticism." From Walter Benjamin's use of montage effects in The Arcades Project, to Roland Barthes' radical experiments with form in his post-semiotic work, to Jacques Derrida's exploration of a "science of chance" in his use of the signature in works like Glas and Signsponge, there has been an ongoing, if intermittent, tradition of exploring the idea that the historical avant-garde's interest in art as a form of knowledge and research, its dedication to using methods whose outcomes are unpredictable in advance (Surrealist games, Oulipian constraints), its openness to the utopian potentials of new communications technologies (particularly photography and cinema), all have the potential to not only become an object of criticism, but to challenge the very division between artistic production and critical discourse. Likewise, artists have responded to the demands of criticism in their own right by transforming them into manifestos and artist's statements which challenge genre on a textual level, by creating hybrid forms such as the essay film, and by making use of both language and image in the forms of video art, installations, and a proliferation of cyber-art genres.

This special issue of Reconstruction seeks to engage this tradition and its proliferations both geographical (where else has the avant-garde destabilized the binary between art and criticism) and conceptual (the combinations of "theory" and art in Language poetry, feminist explorations of autobiographical inquiry as a research strategy, to name just two prominent examples) on the level of practice. While there has been much discussion of how various philosophers and cultural critics have broken the frames of their respective disciplines, academia has been relatively slow to take their experiments seriously enough to allow a proliferation of such research practices and potential variants. With a few notable exceptions, the Enlightenment binary between "knowledge" and "art" has held fast.

We therefore invite submissions that engage the legacies of the "critical avant-garde" on the level of practice, that are willing to take chances with genre. Submissions that combine text and image in new ways are especially welcome from both "artists" and "critics," as are contributions that take seriously the possibilities that come with combining poetic, expository, and narrative modes of discourse. We are looking for art that is critical, criticism that is revelatory, caprice that is methodical and method that is "more or less capricious." Since this special issue seeks to encourage the critical avant-garde on the level of performance, there are no constraints as to subject matter. The "objects" of criticism may come from any discipline or, as Gregory Ulmer has encouraged, the "object" of criticism itself may be put into question.

Please send proposals, abstracts, completed essays, multimedial performances, etc. to Alan Clinton (alanclinton_at_earthlink.net) and John Sundholm (john.sundholm_at_kau.se) by August 15, 2008. Publication is expected in the second quarter of 2009.

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture http://reconstruction.eserver.org (ISSN: 1547-4348) is an innovative online cultural studies journal dedicated to fostering an intellectual community composed of scholars and their audience, granting them all the ability to share thoughts and opinions on the most important and influential work in contemporary interdisciplinary studies. Reconstruction publishes one open issue and three themed issues quarterly. Reconstruction is indexed in the MLA International Bibliography.

An RFP has been released to conduct a demographic study of the ALA membership http://www.ala.org/ala/ors/memresstudyrfp.pdf. Proposal is due by 4:30 p.m. (CST) March 14, 2008. Work on the study is to begin April 1, 2008 and must be completed by August 31, 2008.

Questions regarding the proposal should be addressed to Cathleen Bourdon, cbourdon@ala.org or (800) 545-2433, ext. 3217.

Special issue of the IJISSS - International Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector
http://www.igi-pub.com/ijisss

OBJECTIVES:
To collect and disseminate high-quality and relevant scientific knowledge
and professionals’ experience for helping to underpin the engineering,
management, and philosophy of Service-Oriented Information Systems (SOIS).
The submitted papers should be based on rigorous theoretical or empirical
research that studies the technical, behavioral, economical, managerial,
and philosophical issues involved in the development, utilization, or
evaluation of Information Systems and IT under the emergent paradigm of
Service Science, Management, and Engineering (SSME). These studies should
further current knowledge about Service-Oriented Information Systems, by
advancing theoretical research or providing help for organizations to
resolve pertinent problems and issues, or to address improvement
opportunities. Because of the interdisciplinary scope, papers are expected
from a variety of disciplines, including Information Systems, Software
Engineering, and Systems Engineering, as well as from traditional
business-oriented research.

SUGGESTED TOPICS (but not limited to)
• Theoretical and empirical papers on engineering issues, including
foundations of design and building information systems under the SOIS
emergent paradigm; lifecycles, development methodologies, analysis &
design methods, techniques and tools, requirements engineering for SOIS,
standards and models of SOIS processes; comparisons with component-based,
objected-oriented and functional-based paradigms for engineering
information systems.
• Theoretical and empirical papers on management issues, including
foundations of management of information systems under the SOIS paradigm;
project management issues; frameworks and models for evaluation; economy
of SOIS project;, standards and models of processes; comparison with
component-based, objected-oriented and functional-based paradigms for
management information systems.
• Theoretical papers on philosophical issues, including foundations of the
SOIS paradigm, ontological, axiological, and/or epistemological frameworks
and schemes.
• Case studies of real projects implemented under the SOIS emergent paradigm.
Feel free to contact the guest editors in case you are not sure about the
adequacy of a paper to this issue.
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IMPORTANT DATES:

Deadline extended to: February 15, 2008
First notification to authors due: March 15, 2008
Second paper submission due: April 30, 2008
Definitive paper acceptance due: May 31, 2008
Camera-ready versions due: June 31, 2008
Publishing date: January, 2009
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GUEST EDITORS:

Manuel Mora, Autonomous University of Aguascalientes, México
Claudio Pinhanez, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Rory O’Connor, Dublin City University, Ireland
Brian Blake, Georgetown University, USA
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John Wang (EiC of IJISSS), Montclair State University, USA;

Our call for proposals is still open and we are inviting proposals for performances, papers, workshops and presentations from persons of all disciplines and backgrounds (academics, performers, activists, youth media workers, and others) who would like to share content and spark discussion relating to the conference theme of humor and politics.
Please feel free to spread this email widely to your various colleagues and networks.
Thank you for your kind attention.The graduate student conference organizing team"

The Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies is pleased to announce its 2008 conference!

Find below the call for proposals as well as brief highlights from the conference schedule. More information is available online: http://web.mit.edu/gcws/Grad_Conference_08/index_Intro08.html

**Call for Proposals**

Who's Laughing?: The Power of Humor
April 4-5, 2008
at the Stata Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, USA

The February 15 proposal deadline for performances, papers, and presentations is quickly approaching. A preliminary list of conference event highlights is below. Don't miss out on the chance to present at this cutting-edge gender studies conference!

We invite proposals for presentations on humor as a political tool or subversive strategy. Graduate students, advanced undergraduates, performers, practitioners, artists, and activists are encouraged to examine, reflect upon, or demonstrate the uses of jokes, irony, satire, parody, and performance from a literary, theatrical, multimedia, historical, scientific, sociological, anthropological, or interdisciplinary perspective. Hands-on workshop and performance proposals also accepted.
250 word proposal abstracts are due on February 15, 2008
We encourage submissions that represent cross-disciplinary exploration in content, concept, and structure

**Conference Highlights**

**Calling all comedians, performance artists, cabaret actors, spoken word artists and more! On Friday, 4/4, we will host a performance showcase. Submit a 200-word description by 2/15 to be considered for selection in the line-up (and be sure to detail your space and AV needs.)

** Come to the conference early on 4/5 for Saturday Morning Cartoons! Join us from 9-11 AM for cartoons, pop-tarts, and feminist critique in this kick-off discussion and networking event.

**Join presenters S. Bear Bergman and Glenda Carpio on Saturday, 4/5, for a keynote performance, presentation, and Q&A discussion.

S. Bear Bergman is a writer, a theater artist, an instigator, a gender-jammer, and a good example of what happens when you overeducate a contrarian. Ze is also the author of Butch is a Noun (Suspect Thoughts Press, 2006) and three award-winning solo performnaces, as well as a frequent contributor to anthologies on all manner of topics. Bear is also a frequent lecturer at colleges and universities regarding issues relating to gender and sexuality, and has advised the staff of numerous institutions on their policies regarding transgendered and transsexual students.

Glenda Carpio is Assistant Professor of African and African American Sutdies and of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University. Professor Carpio focuses on African American literature and culture, literature of the African Diaspora, and Anglophone Caribbean Literature. She is currently working on a manuscript entitled, "Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery," and her writings and presentations include analysis of the works of Gayl Jones, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Derek Walcott. She is also co-editing an anthology of Caribbean women writers.

Read the full Call for Proposals online for more information and submission requirements:
http://web.mit.edu/gcws/Grad_Conference_08/CFP08.html

Questions?
Contact gcws@mit.edu

Call for Book Chapters

Emergent Web Intelligence

To be published by Springer Verlag

in the series "Studies in Computational Intelligence"
http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/DBconf/Springer/

Description

The current Internet changes our daily life by redefining the
meanings and processes of business, commerce, marketing, finance,
publishing, education, research, etc. and by revolutionizing the way we
produce, store, process, retrieve and use information. Although
individual Web-based information systems are regularly being deployed,
new efficient techniques and approaches for developing and for
benefiting from collective Web intelligence are required more than ever
to help users avoid irrelevant web search results (pages, links, etc.),
fraud e-business transactions, non-personalized web information, even
wrong web decisions, etc.

The novel intelligent web theory exploits advanced information
technology and IA to explore the next generation of web-empowered
systems, services, and environments, and to design and provide hybrid
web systems that serve wired and wireless users more efficiently.

In this book, we aim at gathering the latest advances of various
topics in web intelligence and reporting how organizations can gain
competitive advantages by applying the different emergent techniques in
the real-world scenarios. Papers and studies which couple the
intelligence techniques and theories with specific web technology
problems are cordially invited. Survey articles that emphasize the
research and application of web intelligence in a particular domain are
greatly welcome.

Topics

Topics to be addressed in the book include, but are not limited to:

* Web Information Retrieval
* Knowledge Networks and Management
* Information Management and Data Representation
* Web Mining
* Web Farming
* Web Agents and Agent-based Systems
* Web Security
* Information Filtering and Access Control Models
* Ontologies
* Semantic Web
* Social Intelligence Design
* Web-based Support Systems
* Human-Web Interaction
* E-Applications and Systems
* Web Technologies and Protocols

Submission Guidelines

Authors are kindly invited to upload their submissions at:
http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/DBconf/Springer/Submission/

Chapter proposals (title and abstract) are to be uploaded before Feb.
15th 2008.
This will facilitate the planning of the review process.
All chapter proposals will be peer reviewed.
Full chapters will be expected by April 28th 2008.
All submitted chapters will be reviewed by at least three reviewers.

Careful preparation of the manuscripts will help keep production time
short and ensure satisfactory appearance of the finished book. Please
prepare the manuscript as follows:

* Please centralize all tables and figures with appropriate legends.

* Please carefully check for typos inside the figures/legends etc.

* All equations must be numbered and please try to use standard fonts.

* Produce a LaTeX version of your chapter using the template provided
(see Author Guidelines at
http://www.softcomputing.net/cec06/author-kit.zip)

Original artwork and a signed copyright release forms will be required
for all accepted chapters.

Important Dates

Deadline for chapter proposals ( title and short abstract): February
15, 2008
Deadline for full chapters: April 28, 2008
Notification of acceptance/rejection of chapters: June 30, 2008
Deadline for submission of final chapters: July 15, 2008
Publication of book "Emergent Web Intelligence": Second half of 2008

Volume Editors

- Richard CHBEIR (Main Contact)
Laboratoire LE2I (UMR - CNRS)
Bourgogne University, Aile de l'Ingénieur
21078 Dijon CEDEX France
Tel.: +333 80 39 36 55
Email: richard.chbeir@u-bourgogne.fr
URL: http://www.le2I.com

- Aboul-Ella Hassanien
Kuwait University
College of Business Administration, Quantitative Methods and IS Department
P.O. Box 5486 Safat, 13055 Kuwait
Tel: +965-4839364
Email: Abo@cba.edu.kw
URL: http://www.cba.edu.kw/abo

- Ajith Abraham
Center for Quantifiable Quality of Service in Communication Systems
Norwegian University of Science & Technology,
Trondheim, Norway
Email: ajith.abraham@ieee.org
URL: http://www.softcomputing.net

- Youakim Badr
INSA de Lyon, Batiment Blaise Pascal
7 Avenue Jean Capelle
69621 Villeurbanne Cedex, France
Tel: +334 72 43 62 73
Email: youakim.badr@insa-lyon.fr
URL: http://www.insa-lyon.fr/liesp

About the series "Studies in Computational Intelligence"
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The series "Studies in Computational Intelligence" (SCI) publishes new
developments and advances in the various areas of computational
intelligence. The intent is to cover the theory, applications, and design
methods of computational intelligence, as embedded in the fields of
engineering,
computer science, physics and life science, as well as the
methodologies behind
them. The series contains monographs, lecture notes and edited volumes
in computational intelligence spanning the areas of neural networks,
connectionist systems, genetic algorithms, evolutionary computation,
artificial intelligence, cellular automata, self-organizing systems,
soft computing, fuzzy systems, and hybrid intelligent systems. Critical
to both contributors and readers are the short publication time and
world-wide distribution - this permits a rapid and broad dissemination
of research results. For more details, go through
http://www.springer.com/series/7092.

The New England Library Instruction Group (NELIG), an interest group of ACRL New England, is requesting proposals from those interested in presenting at this year's annual program, "How Students Learn," to be held at Western New England College, Springfield, MA on Friday June 6th, 2008.

We encourage proposals from individuals, groups of panelists or those interested in facilitating lunch time round table discussions. Proposals that address factors impacting student learning, and how librarians can leverage this knowledge to effectively teach information literacy skills are of particular interest. Proposal topics could include but are not limited to:

Studies of student learning or research habits (in the library, at home, online, etc.)
Innovation in instruction and information literacy programs to accommodate student learning styles
Learning styles in an online environment
Innovative use of library spaces to enhance the student learning experience
Learning styles through the generations (Gen X, Gen Y, The New Silent Generation, etc.)
Cognitive abilities of college students
Gaming as a learning tool
Managing the e-classroom to enhance learning

Each speaker or panel group should plan on presenting for approximately 25 minutes of a 45 minute session, leaving ample time for questions and discussion after the presentation. Interactive presentations are highly encouraged.

For speakers and panelists, please submit a one-page proposal including complete contact information and technology or equipment requirements.

For round table facilitators, please submit a brief paragraph describing your round table, 3 to 5 potential questions you would use to facilitate a lively discussion, and complete contact information. Technology and equipment will not be available at round tables.

All proposals should be submitted to Sara Marks (smarks@fsc.edu) or Laurie Sabol (laurie.sabol@tufts.edu) by February 22, 2008.

ACRL invites proposal submissions for a half-day or full-day professional development programs to be held prior to the 2009 ALA Midwinter Meeting or the 2009 ALA Annual Conference. Submissions will be accepted through April 7, 2008.

FORMAT

Professional development programs should allow participants to develop skills related to a specific topic and should focus on interactive learning through a variety of presentation styles. Programs that offer practical tips and cutting-edge techniques are especially encouraged. Proposals should explicitly outline activities that will be incorporated during the session to enable attendees to achieve the session’s learning outcomes. Programs can either be half-day or full-day sessions.

PRESENTATION DATES

2009 ALA Midwinter Meeting. ACRL workshops will be held on Friday, January 23, 2009, in Denver.
2009 ALA Annual Conference. ACRL preconferences will be held on Friday, July 10, 2009, in Chicago.

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL
Proposals should be submitted via the online proposal form:

https://marvin.foresightint.com/surveys/Tier1Survey/ACRL/241

The deadline for submissions is 5:00 p.m. PST, Monday, April 7, 2008. Proposals must include the following:

Complete contact information for all speakers.
Presentation title.
Presentation description. Outline the main points of the program, including its relevance to attendees and how you would incorporate at least one active learning exercise in your session (approx. 500 words).
Short presentation description. (approx. 100 words)
Support of ACRL Strategic Plan. Outline how your program would support the ACRL Strategic Plan.
At least three learning outcomes and how they will be achieved.
Indicate whether program will be held at the 2009 Midwinter Meeting or Annual Conference.
Indicate whether program has been offered before for ACRL
Program length.
Maximum number of attendees.
SELECTION CRITERIA
Proposals will be evaluated by the ACRL Professional Development Coordinating Committee for clarity, originality, and timeliness. Selection criteria are online at http://www.acrl.org/ala/acrl/acrlevents/2009call.cfm.

Notifications will be issued by May 2008. Visit http://www.acrl.org/ala/acrl/acrlevents/2009call.cfm for complete details. Questions? Contact Margot Conahan at mconahan@ala.org or 312-280-2522.

ACRL is a division of the American Library Association (ALA), representing more than 13,000 academic and research librarians and interested individuals. ACRL is the only individual membership organization in North America that develops programs, products and services to meet the unique needs of academic and research librarians. Its initiatives enable the higher education community to understand the role that academic libraries play in the teaching, learning and research environments.